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Posted by locusbooks on April 25, 2008

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve probably heard that JK Rowling is suing RDR Books for releasing a publication called Harry Potter Lexicon. It seems to me that JK Rowling is being churlish and this whole thing comes down to people other than her making money from the Harry Potter phenomenon. After all, she was fine when the publication was ‘only’ an internet resource.

Book Square agrees - JK Rowling Is Wrong - or follow the whole story as it has unfolded in the media from the RDR site.

Edit: on a slightly related note, here’s an interesting article about Bloomsbury authors getting shirty about being neglected because of the Harry Potter success…

Edit: Print is dead perspective

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