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NEW YORK, May 4, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Owners of Kaavya Viswanathan's disgraced novel, "Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life," are capitalizing on the Harvard student's shame.
A used copy was for sale on Amazon.com for $495 Wednesday while Abebooks.com advertised a "bargain" price of $89.95 -- for now, Book Standard reports on its Web site.
Publisher Little, Brown recalled all the copies of the original $21.95 hardcover books Friday after it was learned the author plagiarized a number of passages from several different books.
The publisher printed 100,000 copies and about 55,000 books had been sent to stores when the recall was announced.
Little, Brown has not said if it would make Viswanathan return her $500,000 advance.
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