I understand the timeline of its publication may be considered inconsiderate to those of us taking more time to mourn, but I would not label this move by the publisher materialistic; if only, because, well, really, what isn't?

Given the incompleteness of the work, the absence of the worker, I would appreciate if Little, Brown kept the manuscript in tact, with little intervention, editing. I think this would give an unfinished novel by a dead author an appropriate context. Whatever.

You'll buy the book--the hardcover--for your collection. But you won't actually read it until they publish the novel in paperback, which will be sometime around 2012.

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