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Wayne Kernochan
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DannyB II:
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Whooter:
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--- Quote ---You dont know what you are talking about, Wayne. I could write a book titled "Microsoft Founder abused me". I could find 5 ex-employees to side with me (for potential royalty kick backs). Then I could write whatever I wanted about Bill Gates and create a nice juicy book and make millions. The problem is that no publisher would ever touch it or expose themselves to a law suit that would cripple them. You will have to notify Elan of your intentions and have them sign off on the book (saying they have no evidence to dispute what you say) prior to publishing it. If you use peoples real names they need to be notified also and the publisher needs to be comfortable that they will not sue (or cannot sue them).
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Then write it. Famous people can't be defamed. Unless your 5 friends go to court and say you lied, you're clean.
I'm not going to argue this with you. As I said, selling the book might be a problem, but not for that reason. The economy is killing the publishing industry, and e-books have taken 10% of sales, as opposed to 2% three years ago
I might try an e-book if I can't sell this the traditional route but that's a long way off
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Selling the book might be a problem, but getting a publisher to to publish it will be impossible unless you get clearance that they will not get sued. All the lawyers need to hammer out the legalities and that takes big money and years. Elan could hold of the book for years. You would be better off using fake names, thats what many people end up doing.
Wayne, you just cant say things about other people publicly unless it is common information. Things like that hurt other peoples reputation and they can very easily sue you, Elan included. This has been demonstrated here on fornits in the past.
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Dysfunction Junction:
I have to give Whooter credit here, Wayne. With his latest foray into the world of literary publication he has shown himself to be stunningly ignorant on yet another topic. I give him a lot of credit for the depth and breadth of his ignorance, which spans basically every topic you can think of.
According to Whooter, no book can be published unless the subject of the book "signs off on it" which means, of course, that no "unauthorized biographies" or "tell-alls" have ever been published. Need we go further debunking Whooter's charade?
It must be a sensitive topic for Danny considering he crawled out of the septic tank to share his thoughts on the topic. This tells me Wayne is hitting a nerve.
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