Melville House Books

The Japanese publisher Bungeishunju will destroy 120,000 copies of one of its books as part of an agreement reached with four South Korean actors whose unauthorized photos appeared in the book. Later that day, as a brief Japan Today article reports, Bungeishunju announced it had filed a suit itself, for a whopping ¥170 million ($1.65 million) — against the book’s photographer for failing to obtain the actors’ permissions.

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.