Frey Settlement

James Frey's publishers have settled with those who believed they were reading a memoir and somehow felt defrauded. I'm not sure how I feel about this, I have to say. I'm sure some of the impetus for this lawsuit is not so much "emotional distress" as "embarrassment money". I wonder if Oprah will turn in her page 163?

£To receive refunds — $23.95 for the hardcover, $14.95 for paperback — consumers will have to submit a receipt or some other proof of purchase: for the hardcover, page 163; for the paperback, the book's front cover. They also will have to sign a sworn statement that they bought the book because they believed it was a memoir."