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...Thursday, Little, Brown asked bookstores to take “Opal Mehta” off their shelves until a revised edition could be put together. By May 2—after similarities were found between Viswanathan’s novel and books by Meg Cabot, Salman Rushdie, and Sophie Kinsella??the sophomore’s two-book contract had been cancelled and Little, Brown had decided not to rerelease “Opal Mehta.” The entire sequence of events played out in just over a week.Amid the controversy, administrators maintained that the College?...
...Times also found that three similar passages exist between “Opal Mehta” and Kinsella??s “Can You Keep a Secret...
...released through Little, Brown last Monday, Viswanathan said that the book would be reprinted after it had been revised “to eliminate any inappropriate similarities.” Pietsch told the New York Times Wednesday that the publishing house would not sue Viswanathan for breach of contract. Kinsella??s and McCafferty’s publisher, Random House, declined to respond to Little, Brown’s announcement. “With Little, Brown having voluntarily withdrawn their book from the marketplace last week, the Random House authors and publishers of the books involved will...
...from Salman Rushdie’s “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” and Meg Cabot’s “The Princess Diaries.” The New York Times also reported similarities between “Opal Mehta” and Sophie Kinsella??s “Can You Keep a Secret?” In each of the cases, the passages in question are short but contain similar rhymes and descriptions...
According to the Times, page 350 of Kinsella??s novel reads: “‘And we’ll tell everyone you got your Donna Karan coat from a discount warehouse shop.’ “Jemima gasps. ‘I didn’t!’ she says, color suffusing her cheeks. “‘You did! I saw the carrier bag,’ I chime in. ‘And we’ll make it public that your pearls are cultured, not real...