Comments on: Amos Lassen Admits Plagiarism, Calls it Paraphrasing

By: Brent Butler

Brent Butler — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:44:25 +0000

I came in on the Amazon thread about AL’s plagiarism late, but I was interested to see how deep it ran. I picked 10 AL reviews at random from throughout his Amazon history. For every one of those 10 reviews, a simple Google search of a sentence that looked as though it should be unique found that the review originated from another source with a date prior to AL posting on Amazon. With that kind of result, the odds that that vast majority of his reviews would be clean are infinitesimal. The gentleman in Amazon’s review community who carried the main load of the research found dozens of plagiarized reviews.

Amazon doesn’t take the action they did at the mere suggestion that a review here or there was copied from somewhere else. They did their own check and then decided it was appropriate to delete everything. That suggests that Amazon had no confidence that ANYTHING posted on their site by AL was clean, or that if anything, any original reviews of his were so few to bother trying to find them.

AL literally defrauded EVERY author who sent him a review copy and in turn received a plagiarized review. AL did them no favors. He claims to be a voice for the gay community. That voice is merely an echo.

By: Ann-Kat

Ann-Kat — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:21:42 +0000

Thank you for the head's up, John. Yes, I do have a screen capture of the blog entry and for the time being, others can have a look via Google cache (until the blog is eventually purged from Google's index).

By: John Green

John Green — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:27:49 +0000

Paul Bens’ LJ account has been deleted. Did you cache the entry?

By: Ann-Kat

Ann-Kat — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:14:35 +0000

So you deny those are your words, Mr. Lassen? That you posted that blog entry? That you left that comment on Mr. Bens' entry? It certainly has taken you long enough to respond, however weak the response. You'd probably be better served reading and responding to the original post on this whole matter. Or, you'd probably be best served just letting this particular dead horse stay dead.

By: Amos Lassen

Amos Lassen — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:06:22 +0000

I have admitted nothing. Ann Kat dreams.

By: The Girl from the Ghetto

The Girl from the Ghetto — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:51:47 +0000

Wowza! I hadn’t heard about this scandel, so thanks for sharing it. Why would anyone paraphrase book reivews … unless they weren’t reading the books themselves, I suppose?

I’m impressed Amazon pulled all of his reviews, although I can see how this would hurt the authors. Such a shame.
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