The Book Is the Book

The book is the book.

It is what it is.
On challenges to "Abe" Rosenthal's account of the Kitty Genovese case:

"'It would never enter a publisher’s mind that they [sic] were [sic] obliged to add material,' said Jane Friedman, a co-founder and chief executive of Open Road Media, which specializes in digitizing and marketing backlist books. 'The information may have changed, but we are not journalists or academics. The book is the book.'”

Leslie Kaufman, Timeless Book May Require Some Timely Fact Checking, NYTimes (January 30, 2013).

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