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Update: A million little refunds

Or maybe a few thousand, depending on how many readers send in for them: a judge has approved a settlement between Random House and class action lawyers who claimed that consumers had suffered injury from purchasing writer James Frey’s fictional autobiography, A Million Little Pieces. Earlier: last April 19 and many previous posts. As Ted […]

Or maybe a few thousand, depending on how many readers send in for them: a judge has approved a settlement between Random House and class action lawyers who claimed that consumers had suffered injury from purchasing writer James Frey’s fictional autobiography, A Million Little Pieces. Earlier: last April 19 and many previous posts. As Ted reported early on in the controversy, Random House long ago offered refunds to dissatisfied readers of the book. (Thomas Zambito, ” Author’s $2.3M lie”, New York Daily News, May 18; “New York Judge Tentatively Approves Refunds for Buyers of James Frey’s Fabricated Memoir”, AP/FoxNews.com, May 18).

P.S. Here’s more from WSJ Law Blog, as well as a post of theirs from when the settlement was announced.

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