I think we can safely say that an awful lot of readers of most persuasions are still enthusiastic about the travails of a bespectacled lad with a mutilated forehead.
Even without any new content (yet?).
The "furore on the Forum" rather took me by surprise - and I'm fairly certain got right up the noses of those superior beings who see nothing in the stories.
(But I'm sure we all agree it's a free world..)
They'll have to find something else to moan about now
Oh yes,it'll be about the whole process ruining electronic publishing, that'll do.................