Potter imponderables

[ivyfic]

From an article on the posting on bittorrent of all of HP7:

It's also fascinating that emphasis in press coverage is not that the entire manuscript has been pirated and is available for free online--which it is--but that spoilers are available.

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[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Being able to read the book early may hurt the publisher and sellers slightly (but not much, most people who care that much will buy the book anyway). Spoilers popping up in random places, forcing some people to avoid the internet entirely, hurts fans--and that's the bigger story.