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Simon & Schuster has admitted that the 900 “hand signed” copies of Bob Dylan’s new book ‘The Philosophy Of Modern Song’ – which the publisher sold through its website – were not actually signed by either of Dylan’s hands. Or anyone else’s for that matter.
An ‘auto pen’ machine was used instead.Miffed fans – who forked out $599 for each signed copy of the book – discovered that they’d been hoodwinked when they started sharing photos of their signed books online. After they were shipped out to buyers last week, and recipients starting posting those photos, it very quickly became clear that every copy had an almost identical signature.There had apparently been some effort to cover up the fact that Dylan hadn’t actually so much as glanced at any of these books. According to Variety, by Sunday afternoon, fans had identified seventeen slight variations of the machine drawn signature.The publisher’s initial response was to deny that there was anything fishy about the books, saying that the signatures were legit and pointing to the letter of authenticity mailed out with each one.
And you can’t argue with a letter of authenticity, can you?Well, actually you can. And Dylan fans did.
Because, let’s not forget, they’d all just paid over £500 for a book they believed had been stroked lovingly by Bob Dylan himself. And it was clear that nothing of the sort had happened.Once it became clear that these people weren’t just going to shut up about all this, Simon & Schuster changed its stance, offering refunds to anyone who bought the ‘signed’ book.
Lewis Capaldi has been announced as one of the headline acts for Reading & Leeds Festival 2023.
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Bob Dylan has offered his "deepest regrets" to fans over an "error in judgment" in using a machine to sign copies of his new book. The 81-year-old 'Blowin' In The Wind' star was caught up in a furore after $600 limited edition copies of his tome 'The Philosophy of Modern Song' were advertised as "hand-signed" but were later found to have been autographed using an "autopen" which replicated his scrawl. Bosses at publishing company Simon and Schuster have acknowledged the blunder and offered refunds and now Dylan has explained how the situation came about.
Bob Dylan has said that allowing an ‘auto-pen’ machine to be used to scrawl his signature onto books and artwork prints was “an error in judgment”.This follows the admission last week from book publisher Simon & Schuster that the “hand signed” copies of Dylan’s new book ‘The Philosophy Of Modern Song’ it had been selling for $599 were not, in fact, hand signed.That admission in turn followed chatter online that the signatures appearing in the signed copies of ‘The Philosophy Of Modern Song’ were all very similar indeed, albeit with some slight variations having seemingly been built into the machine-based signing process.The book firm initially denied that the hand signed books were not hand signed, later implying that it had not been aware that an auto-pen had been used. But once it became clear that technology had been employed, Simon & Schuster issued an apology and pledged to refund all the $599s that had been paid by Dylan’s fans.The man himself admitted in a statement this weekend that the auto-pen has been used to sign artwork prints as well a books.
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