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Book publishers have from four to nine months or longer to examine manuscripts for errors.
Their lawyers do look intently to protect book firms from possible libel suits based on defamation of character and invasions of privacy. But book editors and copy editors seldom check basic facts. A newspaper, The Dallas Morning News, had suddenly revealed that the author was a convicted felon, having been imprisoned for trying to have a former employer murdered, and, another time, for falsifying his signature to cash checks from a government agency. Clearly, the author had lost credibility, to say the least. His book would have gone on to considerable sales, because in it Hatfield accused George W. Bush of having been arrested in 1972 for possession of cocaine.