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Good thing.

I wasn't going to read it anyway.

Violation of her rights as a human being? Somebody alert the UN!

Only quality songs would be released?

If I'm remembering correctly, Lupe Fiasco delayed Food & Liquor for fucking ever after its unfinished advance leaked for similar reasons.

it's one thing to be annoyed. it's another thing altogether to take your ball and go home.

you know damn well that every 13 year old who reads the leaked version will still be at the midnight release party shelling out for the hardcover edition. she should be grateful for the attention.

To be fair this is more akin to uncompleted practice tapes of a band leaking than an album, but really, chill.

Can we just start shooting people who leak books onto the internet? Is that cool?

@7 - I hear King James stole the text for his King James Bible from someone ...

Poor decision on her part. The leaked draft made me fall in deep sparkly love with Twilight all over again, completely erasing the bad taste Breaking Dawn left in my mouth.

Thanks for ongoing coverage with just the right amount of serious/snark, Paul. Much appreciated.

If she doesn't want people to read the unfinished version I really doubt that ensuring that it's the only version available is somehow going to accomplish that.

What the hell does she mean her rights as a human being? I'm no expert, but I'm pretty darn sure that copy and patent rights are not considered actual human rights, legal frameworks for settling disputes sure, but not really essential to survival.

Oh hey and is she then going to return all the money the publisher has advanced her for this book? One of the links claims that readers returned copies of the prior installment of this series & critics were uncomfortable w/ its "right to life" aspects... I confess that I've read none of these books, but isn't it ironic to encounter "right to life" issues in a 'teen vampire' series?

@8: Yeah, Wycliffe and Tyndale translated the Bible into English first, but your comparison is entirely fatuous. Oh hell, why am I bothering. FOAD.

Seems a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face... after all, she's only hurting her own bottom line. Those who leak or read leaked material won't be effected at all. They just move on.

And right now I'm just thanking my lucky stars J K Rowling didn't withhold The Deathly Hollows because it leaked... which seems very business savvy, since such a move would have resulted in a lot more people reading the leaked version then actually paying for it.

Yeah, well Stephanie Meyer violated the rights of vampires everywhere with her slander disguised as "fiction."

People are reading less and less these days. Yet, occasionally a series of books come out that people (for whatever reason) want to read.

And then the author gets all high and mighty about artistic whoseywhatsit and pulls the book from being published. You'd think she'd cling to her audience while she has it. Goddamn, what a moron.

@12 - it's GFOAD and you know it.

That said, one of my high school classmates is trying to write a book right now and every day or so she says something like "only wrote three paragraphs, what a wasted day".

Writer's block sucks, but coming up with a lame argument for not publishing your work is ... lame.

Those kinds of leaks are internal. Someone close skrewed him.