August 07, 2004
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Penguin (finally) Does the Right Thing
The whole katie.com fiasco has been a long and nasty affair, but it seems that a satisfactory resolution for Katie Jones may be in the works... According to a press release on their site, Penguin has finally decided to rename the book A Girl's Life Online.
I'd like to believe that Penguin came to this decision after realizing that they had done Katie Jones a wrong turn, but as it's been about four years since the book's publication, it's more likely that this change in heart was due in large part to the response from the Internet community after the conflict was slashdotted this week.
A movement to call for a boycott within the Amazon.com reader reviews was cut short on Thursday when Amazon unceremoniously deleted a couple of hundred reviews mentioning the boycott (curiously, as of this posting Amazon has not deleted one review on the site that claims that Jones is a pornographer who is trying to slander Tarbox).
Penguin admits no wrongdoing, of course...as it states in their press release
After the book was released into the market, it was brought to Dutton’s attention that a website of the same name existed on the Internet. The fact that the book, Katie.com, and the website shared the same name was purely coincidental.Yeah, right.
Posted by Joanne Tzanis at August 7, 2004 10:19 PM
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