[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Random832]

sistermagpie wrote:
>> Alla:
>>
>> Leaky gives pretty impassioned summaries of what is going on now, so 
>> if you are interested in the history from both sides, it is all 
>> there.
>>
>> I wish it would not come to that, but if the book will be indeed 
>> direct copy of Lexicon, JKR 100% right.
> 
> Magpie:
> Yeah, I'm not a lawyer but from what I read JKR's completely right 
> here. The publishers sound insane. 

Depends on what you mean by "right". Yes, the law is on her side if she 
wants to stop the book from being published (but, a friendly letter 
rather than jumping straight to a lawsuit might have been nice) - but, 
is she "right" in her professed belief that a print version of the 
lexicon would impair her ability to sell an encyclopedia-type book? 
Absolutely not. That's a transparent play for sympathy for a move that 
she _knows_ is going to result in a lot of bad press, especially on the 
heels of her decision to (apparently) not publish the Beedle the Bard 
book for a general audience.