{"id":981,"date":"2005-07-12T23:34:06","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T07:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/12\/manufactured-suspense\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:24:35","slug":"manufactured-suspense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/12\/manufactured-suspense\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufactured Suspense"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The grocer begged customers to return the books, but if they refused, Canadian publisher Raincoast Book Distribution sought an unprecedented injunction from a provincial court to keep the storyline a secret.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Justice Kristi Gill ordered the 14 customers not to talk about the book, copy it, sell it or read it until after midnight on this upcoming Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&#038;click_id=29&#038;art_id=qw1121187961365B225\">Store puts Potter books on shelves too early<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I worked at Borders, it was absolutely <em>critical<\/em> that books never went on the shelves prior to the release date. Bookstores and publishers take this very, very, <em>very<\/em> seriously. I do wonder, however, where the hell our priorities are, when we treat the release of a popular writer&#8217;s work as though it contains potent secrets that must be carefully managed. I mean, a judge got involved, fercryinoutloud!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grocer begged customers to return the books, but if they refused, Canadian publisher Raincoast Book Distribution sought an unprecedented injunction from a provincial court to keep the storyline a secret. &#8230;Justice Kristi Gill ordered the 14 customers not to talk about the book, copy it, sell it or read it until after midnight on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10885,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/10885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}