[Shamu]

I think a lot of people get side-tracked by the fact that she's made millions out of the books. To generalise most horribly, the nay-sayers seem to feel that because she's made her money out of the books, she's not allowed to have a say about her books and her property. Damn right, she's allowed to given it's her original work(be it your cup of tea, or otherwise) on a genre that's never been exclusively anyone's. That is the salient point in all of this.

I'm generally venting right now rather than pinpointing anyone's views on here, specifically.

I think it's a shame that it had to be sorted out like this given how she's been an admirer of the the FREE site and all. But making money out of another person's intellectual property, without original writing or critique (which is what the problem was) doesn't deserve to be on the winning side. I think that would be the horrible precedent.

Oh I got sidetracked. As for the Original Post, I really wanted to read her book of alternative fairy tales as well!