Mabfan's Musings

How is a publisher or packager supposed to catch plagiarism if they are not familiar with the original work? Obviously, they can't compare every word of every book they publish against every word of every other book ever published. The only time a publisher or packager tends to do a legal review of books is when the author puts them on notice that something might need to be checked, or when real world people are used. It is extraordinarily rare for a work of fiction to be reviewed before pub, and even then, not for plagiarism, but for mainly for libel.