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Originally Posted by jgaiser
You must be reading a different article that I did. While it definitely is attention-bait, it was anything but tongue in cheek. It was whining that Rowling has entered *her* genre and is *stealing* readers from her *just* because of her name and should just quit writing and give other folks a chance.
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Your second article (the answer) points out that Rowling might actually make her Fantasy fans aware of the Crime/Detective genre, saying that if this happens, Rowling can't possibly write enough books to keep these people reading continuously.
That would mean that Rowling fans might actually start to buy Crime/Detective novels by other writers in between the Rowling books.
It's not an or/or market; even if Rowling enters a new genre, nobody who buys in the Crime/Detective genre will start buying Rowling books exclusively disregarding all other authors in that genre forever. That's ridiculous. People who buy books in this genre already will either buy Rowling books *alongside* the books they'd be normally buying, or no Rowling books at all.
The suggestion that the genre will receive a part of Rowling's Fantasy fandom, which will later (possibly) boost the sales of other authors, seems by far more plausible.