Editor Apologises for Plagiarising Wikipedia

The editor-in-chief of technology magazine Wired has apologised for failing to cite online encyclopedia Wikipedia in passages in his new book, the ironically titled "Free".

Chris Anderson, points out on his blog at www.Wired.com that, “This is entirely my own screw-up, and will be corrected in the ebook and digital forms before publication."

Anderson was responding to the plagiarism charges after the literary journal the Virginia Quarterly Review stated that similarities between Wikipedia entries and passages in an advance copy of his new book, "Free: The Future of a Digital Price," which is to be published by Hyperion on 7 July 2009.

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