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Originally Posted by murraypaul
If it hadn't come out that the author was JK Rowling, would they still have been so criticised for doing so?
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I agree that there is nothing special about them passing on the book and it says nothing about the quality of the book or their judgment.
But as to whether they would have been criticized if hadn't come out about JKR, we'll never know. Not many unknown names have runaway best sellers in the first few months of a new hard back, unless it's on some timely or sensational topic.
So maybe this book by this Robert person would have started getting some momentum based on the positive reviews and decent sales, and would have done well enough to warrant some additional promotional dollars, and a paperback edition, and THEN word may have spread, and sales would have spiked, and everyone would look to who had turned it down and say "Fools for not seeing the future!" like they always do.
Or maybe the just OK sales would have stayed just OK and no one would have cared one way or another, just like they always don't with the 99% of first books that DON'T become runaway best sellers.