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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
I think she knows exactly that there is high quality ebooks of Harry Potter floating around. And she also knows that there is no undoing it. She might even like that somebody put so much efford into scanning and OCRing the books in in an age where it is so much easier to simply copy a preexisting ebook. By not releasing official ebooks for sale or even free JKR has complete control over the ebooks. Why? Because nobody can steal her ebooks and change the text in it. Plus no worries if a certain copy is legit / legal since every ebook is not legit by default. Pretty clever if you think about it.
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It doesn't take much effort to scan a book. Sure, it is more effort than to simply copy a file, but OCRing a book only has to happen once.
Her control of her books is limited the moment the book is offered to the public in any format. If it is only available on paper, OCRing the book is a minor speed bump, it barely delays anything.
At that point, nothing prevents anyone from changing the book. If I wanted to, I could get a hold of a Harry Potter e-book, and make changes to the story. However, no one would want it. Thus, it is not Rowling having the control over the book that prevents people from changing it. It is the book itself, if I made changes to the book, it wouldn't be the book that people wanted.