defensive much?

[cimorene]

"Our feeling is that once a book is offered up for sale at any public, retail outlet, and we purchase a copy legally and openly, we are free to review it," a spokeswoman said.

[...]

"We took great care not to give away the ending, nor to give away significant details about who lives and who dies, confining our review -- which, incidentally, had extremely high praise for both this final book and the entire series -- to broader-brush assessments of the tone and the writing."

In the review, writer Michiko Kakutani gives away some plot details, including roughly how many characters die and what "deathly hallows" means, but does not leak the big secrets.

Oh, fuck you, New York Times. You knew it wasn't legally for sale and you spoiled crucial plot points of the most anticipated book in decades in a high-profile international publication with thousands of readers who would expect no such thing. It was petty and extremely tacky. At least if a tabloid had published it, there'd have been some kind of "Spoilers inside" warning on the cover.

Link from cleolinda.

Comments

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Bloomsbury and JKR are extremely pissed about it. Not that I blame them.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Agreed *nods*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I hope they sue the motherfuckers. :|

[amalthia]

just pointing out that your post is kind of spoilery too. For anyone that missed the new york times review...me I'd already read about the kertuffle so kind of know what fuckwads the New York Times employs. grrrr really last time the New York Times I think had as a headline about one of the major characters dying. So for anyone that hadn't read the book yet that had to suck.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

I really hope JKR sues their asses.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I... really don't see how this is spoilery. The entire article isn't even spoilery. It's a given that some characters had to die, and the article doesn't even say that they're major ones.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Me too. :|

[amalthia]

no it's not that spoilery but for some people it may be considered spoilery. I like going into books without any outside input, even though the input is perfectly logical based on experiences from the past 6 books.