Novelist and former ad executive Michale T Owens is selling a page of advertising space in his upcoming novel on EBay. On Friday, when Yahoo wrote about this, the high bid was $6.49, so he’s likely to remain a starving artist for a bit longer.
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Not at all original. In 2001 Fay Weldon agreed to this piece of product placement in one of her novels: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,546599,00.html
And I’m sure someone once sold the right to feature as a minor character.