: "I would never have thought that a print version could be judged differently"
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hp_cornfield, but since we are up to six ETAs on the last entry... Steve Vander Ark speaks.
No comments yet, but they are still enabled. Comments and entitlement galore, but also a surprising amount of common sense! (And now at least one accusation of sockpuppetry.) (And now we have Godwin's.) Please remember: no furbashing trolling. (Thanks to ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif)
dreamworld.)
ETA 1: The Lexicon statement's hit the Leaky Cauldron. ( My favorite comments so far )
ETA 2: Shenanigans! Jessica at Q for Quack alleges that Steve Vander Ark knew an encyclopedia/lexicon could not legally be published because he dissuaded her from doing so. (Thanks tolidane.) ( Basically, it is illegal to sell a book like that )
ETA 3: Let's juxtapose a couple of things here. ( The fans are taking over now! )
ETA 4: The Times Online posts article; comment-wank ensues. (Thanks,sheep.) Favorite comment: ( Your books are in the public domain! )
Also: he's a lawyer, and he admits he doesn't know anything about what's in the Lexicon book or on the site, but he's pretty sure the Lexicon's got a case. Another lawyer over here says something similar (thanks,iheartsirius).
ETA 5: Lashings of stupid at an AOL article, viasheep. ( Are you a closet lesbian? )
Frommiss_eponine, a teal deer takes the opportunity to pimp his own book on Tolkien in the Wall Street Journal comments. Call him, Steve! *phone fingers*
And fromladysphinx: ( Surely, this is not the Potterdammerung of which the prophets spake? )
ETA 6: Okay, I thought I'd already posted this on the second entry, but it looks like not.soleta_nf, as previously stated, remembered Steve Vander Ark saying at Convention Alley 2004 that "his real reason for starting the lexicon was that he knew JKR would be publishing an encyclopedia someday, and he hoped that, by having already created one, he would be the person she approached to help her with it." What I forgot to add was that someone here (ETA: waltraute!) found a July 2000 Yahoo Groups post saying that he had just then started the Lexicon for that very reason: ( Read more... )
At the risk of being banished to
hp_cornfield, but since we are up to six ETAs on the last entry... Steve Vander Ark speaks. Everyone here at the Lexicon, all volunteers, regrets the unpleasantness.All of them?
dreamworld.)ETA 1: The Lexicon statement's hit the Leaky Cauldron. ( My favorite comments so far )
ETA 2: Shenanigans! Jessica at Q for Quack alleges that Steve Vander Ark knew an encyclopedia/lexicon could not legally be published because he dissuaded her from doing so. (Thanks to
lidane.) ( Basically, it is illegal to sell a book like that )ETA 3: Let's juxtapose a couple of things here. ( The fans are taking over now! )
ETA 4: The Times Online posts article; comment-wank ensues. (Thanks,
sheep.) Favorite comment: ( Your books are in the public domain! ) Also: he's a lawyer, and he admits he doesn't know anything about what's in the Lexicon book or on the site, but he's pretty sure the Lexicon's got a case. Another lawyer over here says something similar (thanks,
iheartsirius).ETA 5: Lashings of stupid at an AOL article, via
sheep. ( Are you a closet lesbian? )From
miss_eponine, a teal deer takes the opportunity to pimp his own book on Tolkien in the Wall Street Journal comments. Call him, Steve! *phone fingers*And from
ladysphinx: ( Surely, this is not the Potterdammerung of which the prophets spake? )ETA 6: Okay, I thought I'd already posted this on the second entry, but it looks like not.
soleta_nf, as previously stated, remembered Steve Vander Ark saying at Convention Alley 2004 that "his real reason for starting the lexicon was that he knew JKR would be publishing an encyclopedia someday, and he hoped that, by having already created one, he would be the person she approached to help her with it." What I forgot to add was that someone here (ETA: waltraute!) found a July 2000 Yahoo Groups post saying that he had just then started the Lexicon for that very reason: ( Read more... )