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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Wouldn't the publisher have the strongest motive?
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If Rowling ever becomes convinced you are right, she'll never let Hachette publish her again. Considering that, I don't think the publisher had such a motive.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
. . . a timely leaking . . .
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It's impossible to know how timely it was. If it had taken a couple more years for this to come out, perhaps the publisher would have benefited even more.
FYI, here's the publisher ownership chain:
The Cuckoo's Calling is published by Sphere Publishing.
Sphere is an imprint of the Little Brown Book Group.
Little Brown's parent company is Hachette.
Hachette's parent is
Lagardère Publishing.
The parent of Lagardère Publishing is the
Lagardère Group.
According to my last Wikipedia link, the owner of the Lagardère Group is the Government of France. I'm not certain this is correct, but neither do I think Hachette's sole goal in business is to make as much money as possible this quarter.