I adore the idea of him having to pay back his book advance.
The thing that worries me about this is that Penguin will see the stack of correspondence and get excited by the level of interest and see dollar signs, because interest = profile boost = money. We'd have to be very careful about what we said when we approached Penguin to make it clear it's the legal side that we're unhappy about (as karynthia suggests), not just that we're personally offended. Perhaps we need a pro forma letter?
rm: My seething fury isn't leading me to intelligent letter writing. Do you have any interest in mustering one?
I agree. While I concur with others that they're not likely to pull it at this point based on ethics alone (sadly), the fact that a lot of fandom is underage and they didn't do age screening (or at least not from what I've heard) would seem to be something that Penguin might actually care about.
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Date: 2009-09-02 05:25 pm (UTC)The thing that worries me about this is that Penguin will see the stack of correspondence and get excited by the level of interest and see dollar signs, because interest = profile boost = money. We'd have to be very careful about what we said when we approached Penguin to make it clear it's the legal side that we're unhappy about (as
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