Talk:Andrew Sparrow

Confusion over book authorship

There has been some recent churn adding and removing books from Andrew Sparrow's Bibliography section. I believe the root of this is that Google, Amazon and other websites mistakenly conflate the author of these two books:

• 2007 Film and Television Distribution and the Internet: A Legal Guide for the Media Industry ISBN 978-0566087363
• 2003 Obscure Scribblers: A History of Parliamentary Journalism ISBN 978-1842750612

These books were actually authored by two different people who both have the same name.

• The 2007 book was authored by Andrew Sparrow, "a national award winning solicitor and founder of Lecote Solicitors, a niche commercial law firm concentrating on internet, IT and new media law. Andrew is the author of several books on commercial and internet law."
• The 2003 book was written by Andrew Sparrow, journalist and political correspondent. He also has a Twitter account, and can be seen replying to people who have read his book.

Further, today (2022-01-06), Andrew Sparrow the journalist pointed out this mistake. (Which is what began this churn in the first place).

I am going to revert the most recent change, so that the bibliography will list the 2003 book "Obscure Scribblers" but not the 2007 book.

Marbs (talk) 19:19, 6 January 2022 (UTC)