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Yesterday Viswanathan also gave her first public interviews—to NBC’s Today Show and The New York Times—since The Crimson reported Sunday morning that striking similarities existed between her recently released novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” and two books by Megan F. McCafferty...
...Viswanathan told Today Show host Katie Couric that she is currently “taking a few days off” from Harvard. She did not indicate whether she would return to campus this semseter...
...Viswanathan told The New York Times yesterday that some of the copying may have occurred because she has a photographic memory and has read McCafferty’s novels three or four times each. Michael Pietsch ’78, the senior vice president and publisher of Little, Brown—which released “Opal Mehta”—told the Times yesterday that the publishing house would not sue Viswanathan for breach of contract. Most book deals include clauses that the writing must be original, according to Justin Hughes, the director of the intellectual property...
...Viswanathan may still face legal action from Random House, which published McCafferty’s novels...
Pietsch also told the Times that Viswanathan’s advance for her two book deal was less than the previously publicized amount of $500,000—though he did not specify how much the young author received. He also said that the advance was split between Viswanathan and Alloy Entertainment, a book packaging firm that shares the book’s copyright and that helped her “conceptualize and plot the book,” according to Alloy President Leslie Morgenstein...