http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...
Written by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eliezer
If you are reading this Conrad, congrats! The book looks great and seems very well received.
I'm curious, does a "slashdotting" create a noticeable blip in traffic or book sales anymore?
His post announcing the book is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836935
I imagine that Rowling would sell her manuscript to US publishers in an auction house before putting her work on sale globally.
Who knows? She probably make a few million dollars on the low side and much more if the US publishers are real crazy about it.
Heck, this lead to a premises of my next novel(for the moment, I am writing a novel on a bunch of subversive robots). An American publisher/pirate decides to get into the mechanical computer business. He purchased an invention from a mother of an inventor and proceed to violate the inventor's patent by selling it to the average UK consumer, and then the world, ushering in the computer revolution.
The last book I spent reading entirely online was the Harry Potter Deathly Hollows leak. 700 crappy photos of pages ;p (I bought 2 copies of the book too, I don't feel I've done anything wrong).