Musician Bob Dylan called the usage of a instrumentality to "hand-sign" copies of his caller publication sold for $599 a portion an "error successful judgement."
The vocalist responded to outrage from fans by apologizing aft they were promised that the publication would beryllium signed by the vocalist himself and not a machine.
The vocalist announced that helium would beryllium selling 900 copies of his caller publication "Philosophy of Modern Song" for hundreds of dollars each, signed by Dylan.
Fans compared photos online of signatures and realized that the books each contained identical reproductions of Dylan's signature.
Dylan posted a connection to his Facebook page saying the helium decided to usage the autopen instrumentality aft a "bad lawsuit of vertigo."
He said, "I've hand-signed each and each creation people implicit the years, and there's ne'er been a problem."
Dylan said successful the message, "In 2019 I had a atrocious lawsuit of vertigo and it continued into the pandemic years. It takes a unit of 5 moving successful adjacent quarters with maine to assistance alteration these signing sessions, and we could not find a harmless and workable mode to implicit what I needed to bash portion the microorganism was raging."
He said, "The thought of utilizing an auto-pen was suggested to me, on with the assurance that this benignant of happening is done 'all the time' successful the creation and literate worlds."
The vocalist expressed heavy "regrets" and said helium wanted "to rectify" the concern "immediately."
Publisher Simon & Schuster responded telling "those who purchased the 'Philosophy of Modern Song' constricted edition, we privation to apologize."
The steadfast told customers that an contiguous refund would beryllium given.
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