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Marketplace: Shake-Up at Regan Books
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The publishing world is still abuzz about Friday's firing of Judith Regan by the bookselling giant HarperCollins. Regan made headlines most recently by trying to publish a tell-all book by O.J. Simpson. Her effort to publish the Simpson book sparked a lot of criticism and had become an embarrassment for HarperCollins. But according to HarperCollins, that was not the reason she was fired.
HarperCollins says that Regan made anti-Semitic remarks during a phone conversation with a lawyer for the company about her next book. During the course of the conversation, Regan said there was a Jewish cabal of company executives and editors and agents out to get her.
Regan denies that she made anti-Semitic remarks; her lawyer says the company has libeled her and plans to sue HarperCollins.
Alex Chadwick talks to Marketplace's John Dimsdale.
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