[kingu]

Kingu - professional publishers aren’t actually doing their jobs. They’ve been caught before doing this, and this isn’t a one time thing. You would think that a professional publisher would at least do a search on the book title and name to see if it had been published before.

As it disclosed in the story, the title and author were purposefully left off the manuscript. Hard to do a search for a book title if it is not included. But again, unsolicited manuscripts typically get returned unless it is submitted in the abbreviated form.

[JCBreckenridge]

I would encourage the author to repeat the experiment with “Moby Dick”. I would not be shocked if the publisher was not familiar with it.