 York added that doing this allowed the readers to enter the "intertextual space in which (Vice) has worked" and that what Vice was doing with his story was allusion, not plagiarism.York also stated that, according to his own analysis of Vice's story and Carmer's source material, Vice did not break copyright law.After Vice's book was destroyed, remaining used copies on Amazon.com and other booksellers were selling for hundreds of dollars.