diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/palmdoc/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/palmdoc/writer.py
index 784eca5523..835b2c6cb3 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/palmdoc/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/palmdoc/writer.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 import struct
 
 from calibre.ebooks.pdb.formatwriter import FormatWriter
-from calibre.ebooks.txt.writer import TxtWriter, TxtNewlines, TxtMetadata
+from calibre.ebooks.txt.writer import TxtWriter, TxtNewlines
 from calibre.ebooks.mobi.palmdoc import compress_doc
 from calibre.ebooks.pdb.header import PdbHeaderBuilder
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class Writer(FormatWriter):
         
     def _generate_text(self, spine):
         txt_writer = TxtWriter(TxtNewlines('system').newline, self.log)
-        txt = txt_writer.dump(spine, TxtMetadata())
+        txt = txt_writer.dump(spine)
         
         txt_length = len(txt)
         
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/ztxt/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/ztxt/writer.py
index 6e974d1a67..fd7a07d7f9 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/ztxt/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/ztxt/writer.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 import struct, zlib
 
 from calibre.ebooks.pdb.formatwriter import FormatWriter
-from calibre.ebooks.txt.writer import TxtWriter, TxtNewlines, TxtMetadata
+from calibre.ebooks.txt.writer import TxtWriter, TxtNewlines
 from calibre.ebooks.pdb.header import PdbHeaderBuilder
 
 MAX_RECORD_SIZE = 8192
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class Writer(FormatWriter):
         
     def _generate_text(self, spine):
         txt_writer = TxtWriter(TxtNewlines('system').newline, self.log)
-        txt = txt_writer.dump(spine, TxtMetadata())
+        txt = txt_writer.dump(spine)
         
         txt_length = len(txt)
         
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/output.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/output.py
index e4b7539b72..c21c834d76 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/output.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/output.py
@@ -28,13 +28,8 @@ class TXTOutput(OutputFormatPlugin):
                  ])
 
     def convert(self, oeb_book, output_path, input_plugin, opts, log):
-        metadata = TxtMetadata()
-        if opts.insert_metadata:
-            metadata.author = opts.authors if opts.authors else authors_to_string([x.value for x in oeb_book.metadata.creator]) if oeb_book.metadata.creator != [] else _('Unknown')
-            metadata.title = opts.title if opts.title else oeb_book.metadata.title[0].value if oeb_book.metadata.title != [] else _('Unknown')
-            
         writer = TxtWriter(TxtNewlines(opts.newline).newline, log)
-        txt = writer.dump(oeb_book.spine, metadata)
+        txt = writer.dump(oeb_book.spine)
 
         close = False
         if not hasattr(output_path, 'write'):
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/writer.py
index ea613010ef..09a79d322d 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/writer.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class TxtWriter(object):
         self.newline = newline
         self.log = log
 
-    def dump(self, spine, metadata):
+    def dump(self, spine):
         out = u''
         for item in spine:
             content = unicode(item)
@@ -32,12 +32,6 @@ class TxtWriter(object):
             content = self.specified_newlines(content)
             out += content
 
-        # Prepend metadata
-        if metadata.author != None and metadata.author != '':
-            if metadata.title != None and metadata.title != '':
-                out = (u'%s%s%s%s' % (metadata.author.upper(), self.newline, self.newline, self.newline)) + out
-                out = (u'%s%s%s%s' % (metadata.title.upper(), self.newline, self.newline, self.newline)) + out
-
             # Put two blank lines at end of file
             end = out[-3 * len(self.newline):]
             for i in range(3 - end.count(self.newline)):
@@ -145,8 +139,3 @@ class TxtNewlines(object):
     def __init__(self, newline_type):
         self.newline = self.NEWLINE_TYPES.get(newline_type.lower(), os.linesep)
 
-
-class TxtMetadata(object):
-    def __init__(self):
-        self.title = None
-        self.author = None