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photo: Fred Tanneau (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nAmericana legend and 10-time Grammy award winner Bob Dylan, who famously couldn’t be bothered<\/span> to issue a statement after becoming the first musician to win a Nobel prize, issued an exceptionally rare apology this week for using a machine to automatically duplicate his signature. <\/p>\nThe machine-generated signatures appeared on limited purchases of Dylan’s new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song.<\/em> fan, according to<\/span> CNN, reportedly forked over $599 to obtain one of 900 copies of the book which were supposed to ship with a \u201chand signed\u201d signature from the living legend. Instead, when they received their copies, frustrated fans posted copies of the signatures online and noticed<\/span> the supposedly handwritten signatures looked awfully similar.<\/p>\nGrowing fan backlash over the eerily similar signatures forced the book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, to release a statement admitting the autographs weren’t exactly as genuine as purchasers were led to. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs it turners out, the limited edition books do contain Bob’s original signature, but in a penned replica form,\u201d the publisher wrote on Twitter. \u201cWe are addressing this immediately by providing each purchaser with an immediate refund.\u201d <\/p>\n