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Originally Posted by maggieandmommy

I see errors on both sides here.

Yes.

First, way back when the initial email was exchanged (about the summary of Lyle's stuff), Lyle's response should have been "send me a copy of what you want to publish first, please, and we can go from there."

Yes. At least to this point, I agree 100%. I'm not so sure that I agree that the way he handled it was "implied consent" per se for repeated publication of edited-down material, but he would have been much wiser to have gotten a clear idea of what Alwyn was going to publish, as Alwyn would have been much wiser to have provided it. And then a lot of problems could have been avoided.

It looks like AC/MR committed unintentional plagiarism in WSFL because of the missing credit paragraph. Clearly, whoever wrote the "summary" needs a new definition of summary, but as a writer, proofreader, and teacher, let me tell you that many many people see "summary" as something similar to what AC did. Incorrect, sure, but not evil.

Yep, I'm with you here too.

All of this, in my mind, comes back to one of the problems in this fitness industry--the downloadable product. These books don't seem to be subject to the same level of scrutiny--proofreading, editing, facts checking--that would happen with a traditional publisher.

This does seem to be part of the reason that Lyle no longer puts most of his products out as downloadables. (The exception being The Rapid Fat Loss Manual.) Most of his stuff is hardcopy now, even products that used to be available as ebooks.

-- Mel