JK Rowling didn't plagiarise Adrian Jacobs

Teresa Nielsen Hayden expertly dissects the latest accusation of plagiarism against JK Rowling, and imparts rather a lot about the publishing industry in the bargain.

1. The plaintiffs haven't paid much attention to other works in the genre.

2. Non-writers think it's the ideas, rather than the execution, that makes a book. They've got that backward.

3. People who aren't accustomed to having a lot of ideas of their own have a very poor grasp of the odds that others might independently come up with the same ideas.

Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again

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