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Originally Posted by haertig
And you'd think that if he wanted them published under his name he would have pursued doing that during the last 40 or 50 years since he wrote them.
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It is a pervasive quality of the human experience that not all of it is within our control. Robert Galbraith was unmasked. Richard Bachman died from cancer of the pseudonym. The only way to guarantee total control over his work would have been never to publish it, which he elected not to do.
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Originally Posted by haertig
It's about the money, not his wishes. Re-releasing them under his name will peak interest, generate sales, and bring in money to other people who are not named Terry.
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This will also result in more people reading his works who might not have been aware of them and make those works more widely available than they otherwise would have been. Sir Terry has passed on and cannot profit from his own works anymore. Why should it be so terrible that other people make money publishing his work? Publishers have to eat just like the rest of us. Even public domain works are often collected, bound, and sold for profit, and this helps to preserve and, in some cases, enrich them, when things like new illustrations get added.
If you can point to any statements Pratchett himself made about how he wanted previously published work, as differentiated from his well-known thoughts about his unfinished work, then I would be curious to read them.