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Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates
Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates
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Author(s): Quirk, Linda
ISBN No.: 9781551955261
Pages: 116
Year: 202509
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 55.13
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

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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