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The public outcry over J.K. Rowling’s first adult novel, and the important lesson publishers can learn from it
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The public outcry over J.K. Rowling’s first adult novel, and the important lesson publishers can learn from it
September 27, 2012 | 7:22 pm
By Joanna Cabot
J.K. Rowling's first adult novel hit stores (and e-book readers) today, and almost immediately, the lukewarm reviews trickled in—not for the content of the book itself, but for the Kindle formatting: a glitch on the tech end (which this article attributes to an unspecified 'issue' on the end of Hachette, the publisher) made it impossible for Kindle readers to adjust the font size to their preference. You had to read it in either Really Big or Teeny Tiny, with no in between.
Curiously mixed in with these complaints was an outcry over the e-book price: $17.99, based on a discount off the...



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