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Originally Posted by omk3
I agree with you there, in that I would want my kids to get used to paper books first, at least as things are now, then later proceed to ebooks if they want to. But, no one suggested to not have them published as paper books, just to add the ebook option. You know and she knows and we all know that Harry Potter has a very big adult audience too.
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I agree mostly, but though I don't think I'd like her very much, I appreciate her blatant and obvious lack of trust in adults and parents, and abandoning pretty much just adults on the ebook thing.
Of course there are many things I don't like about decisions she's made regarding publishing...but on principle, I like how she's encouraging the peer pressure around her books among young people to manifest as peer pressure to get real books, rather than gadgets to show off to their friends that are more important than the books in those gadgets.
One day ebooks will be ubiquitous and inexpensive and will transcend the "novel gadget" status it still enjoys today. Today is not that day, except for some deluded fools on websites like this.
That's why I said I hope Rowling keeps to her principles for a few years, rather than forever.