Big Bucks for the Bear Bryant Funeral Train?

The Bear Bryant Funeral Train (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) by Brad Vice

I wonder if Mr. Vice's book doesn't get picked up somewhere else now for more money.
djournal.com: Internet prices have soared for a book penned by a Mississippi State University professor after the work was criticized amid allegations of plagiarism. Individual sellers on Amazon.com listed prices starting at $800 for MSU English professor Brad Vice's “The Bear Bryant Funeral Train,” after allegations arose that the work “borrowed heavily” from “uncredited” material. Vice's prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction was revoked last month after research found one of his short stories, “Tuscaloosa Knights,” expropriated text in Carl Carmer's “Stars Fell on Alabama,” printed in the 1930s.
You see, if he would have taken the time to indicate somehow that he was “borrowing heavily” from other work, it would no longer be “uncredited,” and maybe we wouldn't have to read about it here or anywhere else.

I haven't read either text. Anybody like to tell me something I don't know about them?

Here's what you should know, if you don't already... $800 is too much for these books. (update: I just checked amazon.com and somebody is trying to sell it for $950... I guess if you got yourself a copy of this book, you can try to sell it for whatever you like, but honestly, that's just plain old pushing the limit of good sense and taste... )

These books may end up being somewhat rare, but the chances of them actually being valued that high in this lifetime are even rarer.

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