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Steve Ross, the senior vice president and publisher of Crown Publishers and Three Rivers Press, subsidiaries of Random House that have released Megan McCafferty's novels, issued the following statement this afternoon...
...Viswanathan's claim that similarities in her phrasing were 'unconscious' or 'unintentional' is suspect. We have documented more than forty passages from Kaavya Viswanathan's recent publication 'How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life' that contain identical language and/or common scene or dialogue structure from Megan McCafferty's first two books, 'Sloppy Firsts' and 'Second Helpings.' This extensive taking from Ms. McCafferty's books is nothing less than an act of literary identity theft...
...Based on the scope and character of the similarities, it is inconceivable that this was a display of youthful innocence or an unconscious or unintentional act. We are extremely proud of Megan McCafferty's success to date with 400,000 copies of her books in print and her most recent book CHARMED THIRDS (4/11/06) already climbing the bestseller lists. We will be supporting our author by seeking an amicable and timely resolution to this situation...
Random House is the publisher of “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings” by Megan F. McCafferty. The two books have sold a combined 300,000 copies, according to the firm...
Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 admitted yesterday to borrowing language from two books by Megan F. McCafferty, though the student novelist said that "any phrasing similarities between her works and mine were completely unintentional and unconscious...