Rat Meat Sold as Lamb in China Highlights FearsHONG KONG – Even for China’s scandal-numbed diners, news that the lamb simmering in the pot may actually be rat took the country’s endless outrages about food hazards into a new realm of disgust.
My friend Fitz is off to Kauai’i tomorrow. He said he may “send some vistas.”
I tell him not to: “Fitz, no Vista’s! I’m happy with my current operating system!”
He gets a big laugh out of this.
Authors Sue AuthorHouseAlmost a year ago, David Gaughran wrote a post for IR called, ” Penguin’s New Business Model: Exploiting Writers “. In it, he outlined the details of how Penguin’s parent company, Pearson, purchased Author Solutions-which has a long history of providing questionable services at staggering prices-for $116 million.
Authors sue AuthorHouse.
Turns out that, according to a claim filed by three unhappy authors, “Penguin Group’s self-publishing branch, Author Solutions, cheats writers of royalties and charges them to correct typos in manuscripts that the company itself inserted… ”
See: http://indiereader.com/2013/05/update-authors-sue-author-house/