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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:38:57 +0530
Book links Kaavya debacle with ‘perils’ of outsourcing
Uttara Choudhury
Thursday, August 10, 2006 23:43 IST
NEW YORK: American tech writer and web architect Kay Stoner’s Bring Me
the Head of Opal Mehta draws surprising connections between Kaavya
Viswanathan’s failed plagiarism-plagued first novel and the risks
lurking in shipping work overseas to “under-qualified or mismanaged
offshore staff.”
Stoner said she may have been “Bangalored” while working for a
multinational financial services company but her print-on-demand book
soft-launched by Lulu.com this week is not a disgruntled techie’s bitter
venting. The 141-page paperback priced at $12.95 will be distributed
worldwide in six weeks through US online retail chains like Amazon.com.
“I had really hesitated to write this book. But when Kaavvyagate
happened it really crystallised so many ideas for me — everything fell
into place. You all in India saw it happening — there was all this
flurry of drama, chaos and this shock and horror,” the 41-year-old
software engineer, told DNA.
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http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1046606