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Originally Posted by nekokami
I think the hacker cred had the most influence in what happened this week. If Rowling (or her publishers) hadn't made such a big deal of never authorizing digital editions previously, the efforts to convert the books more and more quickly might not have escalated to the point that the hackers felt that they had to get the digital edition out before the actual paper edition to outdo the 24 hour turnaround last time.
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Yeah, definitely. There's also some bad feeling towards Rowling in the Open Source and hacker communities because of the lawsuits in Canada last year, where the publisher successfully got an injunction against reading the book before it came out... Essentially making reading a crime! This was for lucky fans who had been sold books by confused stores, so it wasn't the fans' fault at all - and even if it were, making reading illegal seems a step too far.