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Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates

Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates

Quirk, Linda

Paperback

Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections

Literary CriticismBusiness of WritingGeneral Antiques & Collectibles

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1551955261
ISBN13: 9781551955261
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Published: Sep 18 2025
Pages: 116
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.56 Width: 8.91 Depth: 11.98
Language: English
Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains accidental mistakes--ranging from typos to factual errors to errors arising from prejudicial assumptions--and a significant proportion of it also contains deliberate misinformation resulting from various forms of forgery, fakery, and piracy. This exhibition catalogue introduces the work of notorious and lesser-known forgers, it reveals the various ways in which experts and authors have faked their own identities--ranging from carefully-selected pseudonyms to falsified ethnicities to fraudulent credentials--and it explores a number of shady publishing practices. We can all become better readers and better at protecting ourselves from scammers by improving our understanding of the nature of the content before us.

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