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...statement yesterday, Little, Brown—the publisher that reportedly gave Viswanthan a two-book, $500,000 contract—asked stores to send back any unsold copies of "Opal Mehta." The move came only a day after Michael Pietsch ’78, senior vice president and publisher of Little, Brown, told The New York Times that the publishing house would not withdraw current editions of the novel from bookshelves...
Viswanathan also said Monday that she will revise her book to take out all of the "inappropriate similarities" between "Opal Mehta" and McCafferty’s novels...
...Harvard Book Store last night, Ben Newcomer, a supervisor, said that he had not yet received any request from Little, Brown to withdraw and return the store’s copies of "Opal Mehta...
...small stack of "Opal Mehta" copies continued to be displayed on a table at the front of the store...
...hour before the Harvard Coop closed last night, the book was still prominently featured in the glass case outside of the Mass. Ave entrance. Stacks of "Opal Mehta" and McCafferty’s two books were displayed together at the information desk inside. A manager at the Coop, Nancy Scheirer, declined to comment...