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@JSWolf
The Piracy issue is not an issue since the Harry Potter Fiasco showed that releasing something as pbook exclusively is not at all an effective way of preventing piracy...quite the opposite actually...
To give a positive example: I bought the ebook version of "Wintersmith" by Terry Pratchett on the day of it's release and looked for the pirated version, just for fun...it actually took several weeks until it appeard in the usual places.
Maybe the whole pre-release photo-and OCR job ob the last Harry Potter could have been prevented by a synchronos pbook and ebook release...don't you think so?
Instead, loads of "innocent" people were temped to get the illegal ebook days before the official version and it was a lose-lose situation for Rowling and her publisher...
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