Posts by Heather W.
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Phrases:
"It's not a good look"
"animalistic penis-brains (APB)" (c/- Danielle/Tess Rooney)
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Apparently it's possible to "finish" World of Warcraft rather than just be finished with it. What does such a person do next?
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While you're waiting for that, can I upset you with the news from Booksellers NZ that The Trowenna Sea was the best-selling New Zealand novel for the week ending Nov 21 -- that's three weeks at number one now.
Figures now out for week ending Nov 28 - same book at number one. Book still appears to be freely available. NZ Listener again has an article (Dec 12-18) on the issue, including a quote from Penguin -
From this point, we do not give the Listener permission to quote any further extracts of any kind from The Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera.
So the magazine have listed some more "borrowings". Since it is getting to be more of the book they may be getting to the limits of the "fair dealing provisions" of a certain act.
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Blackout
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For those who take their novels more seriously or is it a sport? - November is International Novel Writing Month.
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BTW does anyone know where I can get a replacement T2?
Several on Trademe at the moment, even a couple of the Islands.
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Jolisa,
Did you end up with up a copy of that book? I tried sending you a message via PAS feedback last week.
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Thanks Ngaire.
So Prof I. is seen as making amends - it's not his fault that the distributor is making the recall voluntary. The plus is that he is likely to sell more books due to the publicity and the perceived rarity value. Can ship it again with an errata with the 16 "errors" and a couple more that he has found and can still be ahead this financial year.
Before I go into full cynic mode, I thought the editorial in the Southland Times on Thursday worded things nicely.
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The book has been withdrawn from sale at considerable financial cost to Professor Ihimaera.
The last phrasing I'd heard was that he was "planning to buy back unsold copies". It was still available at The Warehouse yesterday - Fishpond has it though Whitcoulls and PaperPlus now list as unavailable on their websites. Biblioz has it but very expensive.
Penguin still had it listed with no withdraw message when I looked 10 mins ago - with this quote.
Witi Ihimaera returns from rewriting his early books with this brand-new novel, a compelling historical drama that places one of New Zealand's master storytellers at the height of his powers.
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From Stuff today:
Life improved substantially for prominent author Witi Ihimaera this week.
Ihimaera, who was at the centre of a plagiarism row last week, was today named one of New Zealand's Arts Foundation Laureates for 2009.
The author of Whale Rider is one of five artists to win the award, along with carver Lyonel Grant, musician Chris Knox, photographer Anne Noble and traditional Maori musical instruments guru Richard Nunns.
The awards, presented at the ASB Showgrounds in Auckland this evening, gives the recipients a $50,000 no-strings attached donation to celebrate their past achievements and invest in their future.