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releasing a book called "if i did it" which switches from a hypothetical framework to first person over the course of the book
He literally didn't write it, nor title nor release it as is. A court ordered the book rights be handed over, and they then deliberately made it look like a confession.
good lord
who's they tho
The family of one of the victims
they didn't write the book tho, some other guy did as a ghost writer for oj?
Yes - A ghost writer wrote it, including claiming a whole bunch of stuff Simpson disagreed with. Once the rights were transferred, the family changed the title, cover and added their own extra text throughout to look extra incriminating.
trying to dig out info on this can you send me anything you've found?
I mean this is kind of true, but they didn't have the authority to change the contents of the book or the title.
The thing they did to try to make it look like a confession was the graphic design of the cover making the word "If" difficult to see, so that it kind of looks like it's called "I Did It."
I haven't read it so I can't comment on the veracity of shath's comment, but if it is true then it's not because her family changed the text of the book.
EDIT: you know what, looking into it more, it definitely does sound like more was changed than the cover design so I'm just going to say idk what happened here and it could be a significant rewrite, sorry CarbonScored
As well as changing the cover, they changed the "subtitle", and added in their own text throughout.
you know what, looking into it more, it definitely does sound like more was changed than the cover design so I'm just going to say idk what happened here and it could be a significant rewrite, sorry CarbonScored
Okay, so I want to pull back a little bit because I'm not an expert on this or anything, but my understanding is that the reason that they changed the cover in the way that they did is that they weren't allowed to actually change the title of the book.
Are you saying that they were allowed to change the title of the book but chose to only change the graphic design, or that they weren't allowed to change the title of the book, but that they were allowed to insert new text into it to make it look more incriminating?