Peter Arnell forced to pay back HarperCollins


	Peter Arnell forced to pay back HarperCollins

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4-28-2009 3:46 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4a147ad9-6bd7-4b27-9ae2-ccbe56ff18b3/BB75D5FB-3970-4E75-8599-C15C5B2CE7BA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://industry.bnet.com/advertising/10001811/despite-550000-arnell-fails-to-write-book-must-pay-publisher-100000/" href="http://industry.bnet.com/advertising/10001811/despite-550000-arnell-fails-to-write-book-must-pay-publisher-100000/" style="font-size: 11px;">industry.bnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://industry.bnet.com/advertising/10001811/despite-550000-arnell-fails-to-write-book-must-pay-publisher-100000/"><H1>Despite $550,000 Payoff, Arnell Fails to Write Book, Must Pay Publisher $100,000</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://industry.bnet.com/advertising/10001811/despite-550000-arnell-fails-to-write-book-must-pay-publisher-100000/"><P><STRONG>Peter Arnell </STRONG>has been ordered to return $100,000 of a $550,000 advance for a book on “personal branding” that he failed to deliver to <STRONG>HarperCollins</STRONG>. (Read the ruling below.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://industry.bnet.com/advertising/10001811/despite-550000-arnell-fails-to-write-book-must-pay-publisher-100000/"><P><IMG width="225" height="319" alt="" src="http://i.bnet.com/blogs/1292-peter-arnell.gif" class="alignright" />Arnell failed to deliver the book despite having the assistance of two ghostwriters, a personal assistant, his wife and an editor at HarperCollins. He only turned in 25,000 words of a promised 80,000 manuscript — and HarperCollins sued to get its money back.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BB75D5FB-3970-4E75-8599-C15C5B2CE7BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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