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Grand Central Pays $1.2 Million for Cat Book

Grand Central (formerly Warner Books) is apparently paying $1.2 million for a book about a cat that lived at a library. The cat, named Dewey (for Dewey Decimal System) was left in a small northwest Iowan town library's book drop in 1988. TV crews came from all over the world to do a literal warm and fuzzy story. Now the cat has died and librarian Vicki Myron has a book deal. Furthermore, she's not even writing the book herself, but has a ghost. As part of the evidence for Dewey's popularity, "she has found more than 200 "hits" for Dewey on the Internet search engine Google." Hell, that's nothing - I checked my name and came up with - no joke - 25,600, at least one of which was for a financial planner in Florida. So let's call it 25,000; I'm ready for my $150 billion, Mr. Warner ... or Mr. Central, or whatever your name is. I won't even need a ghost.

posted by Erik Sherman @ 4:57 AM