Earniel
08-18-2011, 08:36 AM
Publisher’s claim of getting an audience with her false (http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/jk-rowling-spokesman-publishers-claim-of-getting-an-audience-with-her-false/2011/08/16/gIQAXsQEJJ_story.html)
No truth to PA claim (http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2011/8/16/no-truth-to-publishamericas-jk-rowling-claim)
Some background on other offers of PA (http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2011/08/taking-famous-names-in-vain.html)
Tssk tssk, they may be able to use names like Stephen King and Clive Cussler to make people pay for the 'privilege' of having these succesful authors comment on their clients' books. (Just recently one of their one-time authors also tried to sue King for plagiarism, which is exactly why authors generally refuse to see other people's books in the first place and why it's so pointless to try and send them unsollicited books.)
But they really shouldn't have tried to use Rowling's name to make an extra buck. Her lawyers are even scarier than those of the Tolkien Estate. :eek:
No truth to PA claim (http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2011/8/16/no-truth-to-publishamericas-jk-rowling-claim)
Some background on other offers of PA (http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2011/08/taking-famous-names-in-vain.html)
Tssk tssk, they may be able to use names like Stephen King and Clive Cussler to make people pay for the 'privilege' of having these succesful authors comment on their clients' books. (Just recently one of their one-time authors also tried to sue King for plagiarism, which is exactly why authors generally refuse to see other people's books in the first place and why it's so pointless to try and send them unsollicited books.)
But they really shouldn't have tried to use Rowling's name to make an extra buck. Her lawyers are even scarier than those of the Tolkien Estate. :eek: