I'm sure you've heard that JK Rowling is suing an encylopedic fan site dedicated to her novels for daring to publish a 10 000 print run book based on the site's original-but-based-on-the-novels content.
The following is one of the tamer passages from Scott Card's article:
Rowling's hypocrisy is so thick I can hardly
breathe: Prior to the publication of each novel, there were books about
them that were no more intrusive than Lexicon. I contributed to one of
them, and there was no complaint about it from Rowling or her
publishers because they knew perfectly well that these fan/scholar
ancillary publications were great publicity and actually boosted sales. But now the Harry Potter series is over, and Rowling claims that her “creative work” is being “decimated.”
(via Reddit)
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I disagree with Orson Scott Card on a lot of issues, but I think he's bang-on-the-money with this.
Rowling wrecked a lot of people's views of her with this one action I think – a real “Metallica moment” as I like to think of it.