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2005-04-29 05:57
by Will Carroll

So should I be bothered that some genius at Amazon - where they still don't have the correct cover or ship date - put "Alan Schwarz (foreword)" - in such a way that now, even on my own page, it looks like Alan Schwarz wrote the book?

I'm eternally grateful to Alan for writing his introductive essay and there's also a part of me that whispers "this might sell more books." So it's an interesting psychological battle between the id and the ego, which could end up on pay per view.

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2005-04-29 07:08:50
1.   Derek Smart
I suppose this is kharmic giveback for Mr. Schwarz, as the Amazon listing of the paperback version of his recent book, "The Numbers Game," does the same thing with Peter Gammons' forward!

That's some nice work by those Amazon folks (he says, wiping the dripping sarcasm from his snarling lip).
2005-04-29 07:28:05
2.   metsblog
Amazon is notorious for this...

Two friends of mine, both authors, had books listed incorrectly at Amazon, and in both cases the writer of the Foreword were listed as the author...

Matthew Cerrone
MetsBlog.com

2005-04-30 04:01:01
3.   Blah Blah Blah
I suspect the vast majority of buyers for the book know the author's identity going in.
2005-04-30 09:10:51
4.   Marc Normandin
Slightly off topic, yet right on the nose:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=bayless/050429

99% of the time I don't agree with Skip Bayless...but for once is his insistency to stir up an issue and start controversy has a place.

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