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Once they have 'their' JK Rowling or Tom Clancy it is not in their interest to promote an alternative one.

Yep just like JK Rowling said in Game of Thrones, one ring to rule them all and in the darkness blind them.

A better criticism to what e12e was trying to imply is perhaps that Rowling certainly wouldn't be rich if it weren't for a network of publishers.

Are you talking about the Rowling books?

It's a fun intellectual game to wonder just how exploitable various magic systems are, but perhaps the story that Rowling wanted to tell hinged less on precisely how magic worked than on the timeless tale of plucky schoolchildren successfully killing their teacher in a secret dungeon.

I know this is cliché stuff but remember Thomas Edison's 1000 ways not to make a lightbulb, and JK Rowling getting rejected from a dozen publishers, and Elon Musk nearly going bankrupt in 2008, and that Abraham Lincoln didn't do anything particularly notable whatsoever prior to turning 52.

(Colonel) Harland Sanders was 62, Jon Hamm (Don Draper) was 36, JK Rowling was 32, Thomas Siebel (Seibel Systems) was 41, Reid Hoffman was 35, Robert Noyce (Intel) was 40, Dave Duffield (Peoplesoft) was 46, John Pemberton (Coca-cola) was 55, Henry Kaiser was 63, and Charles Darwin was 50.

How about "JK Rowling" (Joanne Rowling)?

Should Facebook not allow "Robert Galbraith" (JK Rowling) to have a page?

K." Rowling's publisher asked her to hide her gender.

Additionally, a lot of the "solutions" to problems Harry has are relatively unsatisfying: Harry often circumvents a problem by "clever" applications of the rules, but because the rules of magic as given both in Rowling and in Yudkowsky are ill-defined and even self-contradictory, this seems less clever and more like arbitrary author fiat.

Rowling in terms of enthusiasm for the written word, Tumblr hits the right mix of decent flexibility and dead simple UI.

Rowling couldn't have written Harry Potter if not for Bloomsbury Publishing's in-house style rules.

I actually thought the article would be about evading the kind of linguistic analysis that exposed J K Rowling.