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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Which only means that she didn't get any money for them. Unprotected versions were immediately available. Given the demand for the books, I think that's a clear case of cutting off the nose to spite the face. Legal ebooks wouldn't have hurt her paper sales and would have provided an additional revenue stream. Refusing to license them simply meant anyone who wanted one would have to turn to other options.
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Those unprotected editions were the result of people scanning the books to create an etext. Lots of that goes on, and there are newsgroups essentially devoted to it.
I even got amusing spam offering to sell me an electronic version of one of the Potter books. A whois on the website yielded name, address, and phone number of the seller. The website was gone withing a couple of days, which indicates I'm not the only one who did that lookup.
And you can argue that Rowling was foolish to refuse to license electronic editions. Quite possibly. I don't know her reasoning.
The point was simply that it wasn't ebook publishers who passed on the opportunity, it was the author.
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Dennis