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Originally Posted by wodin
Prejudice is prejudice; it is neither rational nor easily overcome. Ms. Rowling has an obvious prejudice for technology as exemplified by her first drafts being in longhand and her resistance against all argument to electronic publication.
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Umm, no. You need some historical perspective:
She started writing HP in *1990* and wrote it mostly in cafes. Laptops were very rare and very expensive at that time, and - in those pre-WWW days - even desktops were not very common for home use by people who weren't students, gamers, or programmers.
And as you can find in her biography:
"Working at Amnesty International, Rowling discovered one thing to like about life as a secretary: she could use the computer to type up her own stories during quiet times. "
She also wrote the second book on computer, presumably because she now had enough money from the first book to buy one.
I'm not sure what she really thinks about e-readers, but she's clearly not some sort of neo-luddite technophobe.