@Poppaea (I love that avatar so much!!)
Sure, but saying you won't publish them in eBook form because eBooks are for adults DOES imply that you don't want to facilitate grown ups reading them. If she did say that and didn't mean it that way, then... she fails logic forever? I would say so, anyway.
I'm not sure how people aren't happy no matter what she does -- is someone arguing that she should NOT release the books in ebook form? I missed that.
The last HP book was published 6 months after the iPhone was released. And she hasn't been living in a bubble since then -- the last time I went to HPB, I saw
four different runs of HP on display. She's apparently maintained all this time that kids don't have access to eReaders.
And, again, this doesn't address the handicapped kids. A niche market? Maybe. But I get annoyed with "beloved childrens' authors" just sort of forget that not everyone has the same access to their books.