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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I am not saying my scenario is correct, but it seems unlikely that there was no plan here. Perhaps the publisher only agreed to take the book in the first place on the understanding that it was leaked at some point in time? But this leak seems too convenient.
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It was very much not a timely leak - booksellers were completely unprepared for the extra demand.
The sales would have come when the pseudonym was eventually revealed whenever that happened to be. There was no great need for it to be so soon.