Being John Hughes: Inside literature’s plagiarism scandal
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How Does John Hughes Get Away With It?
The literary world in Australia, unfortunately, is small and it's getting smaller. The average salary that these kind of authors make is dropping. It's not a pleasant place to work. Publishing has very, very high rates of mental illness. And one of the ways that it deals with these conditions is solidarity. People look out for each other. They may not be getting wide readerships, but they are getting peer accolades - sometimes those take the form of awards. To step out of that circle and break it can be quite difficult because you don't know whether you're going to be penalised for that sort of behaviour. There aren't that many eyeballs going over it to detect things
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