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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
If she's worried about piracy, that's silly, especially considering people set up lawn chairs outside bookstores for the hardcover release. The fact that she hand writes the books and says they were meant to be in paper form suggests she has a romantic notion of a good ol' book. Given her genre and themes, I can sorta understand this. I suspect that reason is more the motivation, rather than fear of lost profits due to piracy; for one, she has to know they've already been pirated, and for two, the fortune from the books is beyond achieved.
I don't think it's hypocritical. Movies and audiobooks are performance presentations of the work. Different animals.
I seriously doubt the lack of ebook format has left people out in the cold. Seriously. Anyone who wants to read Harry Potter will, and probably has. Most readers still buy in paper form, and I doubt many of the ones that don't just can't bear to read the paper version of a book they're really interested in. Most Potter fans would read the books on bathroom tissue if that was their only option.
If a romantic notion of paper books is her primary reasoning, then good for her. Everyone cries about greed-motivated publishing decisions, so if an author rejects a format due to artistic principle, I may not agree but I certainly respect it. If she's genuinely motivated primarily by piracy concerns, well that's baffling.
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how very muggle of her not being able to accept something that is different