please empty your brain below

Well I'm very glad you've rumbled him, sounds like he's banged to rights. Hope you can get some compo, or even better, see if his publisher will give you a book deal. Always thought you should start publishing your stuff and this proves there's a market!

Lazy journo's favourite keystrokes: 'ctrl+c' followed by 'ctrl+v'.

What a tosser that man is.

I love it when people get caught out in this way. Shows them up for what they really are.

hey! coming across your blog for the first time.
loved reading the posts in your blog.

Any personal recommendations regarding books about the history of the underground? Currently reading (looking at) The Moving Metropolis.

Well it's got a five star review on Amazon so I, for one, will be buying several copies.

Um - this is a bit naughty. Granted, a list of facts is a list of facts, and has to be sourced from somewhere - I wouldn't necessarily plod on down to the public records office to establish the names of Queen Elizabeth II's children.

But the other stuff...

It isn't a list of facts freely available, it's original research, and no proper credit seems to have been given (and no permission sought). More than just a bit naughty, no?

Oh - I do agree with you, K. 100\\%.

I was trying to be as charitable as possible, mainly because DG's post is extremely (and characteristically) measured. More than mine might have been in the circumstances. I'm always a bit shy of shouting 'burn him! burn him!' in somebody else's comments box.

You're quite right about original research. And, for the avoidance of any doubt, yes, if you want to spell it out - it is more than 'a bit naughty'.

'Freely available on the internet' is no different to 'freely available in someone else's book'. Your generous use of 'for inspiration' made me smile!

Perhaps you should post a review on Amazon...

I checked out all the other Amazon reviews by "West London Gal". She is very easily pleased (five stars for all seven reviews) and a big fan of David Long (six of the seven reviews are for his books). Hmmmm. Wonder whether she will write some reviews for my books. Hope not.

I suggest, at the very least, an email to his publishers claiming plagiarism.

However, he will probably do an "Andrew Motion".

Love it.

Oh PLEASE publish a review on Amazon... or perhaps a few of us should?

It hadn't passed my notice that plagiarists always have the contacts to get the book deals - come the self publishing e-book revolution maybe the real creators will get a sniff at the spondulicks instead?
Someone in the newspaper industry (a while ago) said,"God gave you eye's, plagiarise!" Seems to be the norm these days anyway.

I felt I needed to post a comment about West London Gal's somewhat uncritical view of the works of Mr Long, so I did. I don't want to take up the cudgels on DG's behalf (much as I would like to) unless he's happy with this.

You can leave a comment for David at http://www.davidlong.info/contac...tact/
index.html
!

I just added an Amazon review of my own... hope it is approved and stays there...

Martin

i left him a suitable comment on Amazon.

It would be polite if only people who've actually read The Little Book of the London Underground posted a comment on Amazon. Otherwise the comments there risk being far more inaccurate than anything in the book.

I suggest you send the publishers an invoice for say £500 x 4 examples of plagiarism = £2000. You have nothing to lose and they may well pay it.

Why is everyone assuming that the publisher had nothing to do with the plagiarism?

"It would be polite if only people who've actually read The Little Book of the London Underground posted a comment on Amazon. Otherwise the comments there risk being far more inaccurate than anything in the book"

Try telling that to the extremists who havent read "The Satanic Verses". Or the Christians who demonstrated outside cinemas where "The Last Temptation of Christ" was showing.











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