What is Camilla Lackberg thanking American publishers for?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/16/2010 12:28 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>For the "until now".
>DanG

Of course that's what the writer intended.  Of course what I'm asking
is, did the writer succeed, or does it conflict too much with "no one
bothered to"?

Joel


>On 6/16/2010 12:16 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>>NYTimes, June 16, page 1:
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>>A Dark Scandinavian Trilogy Sets Publishers Seeking More [headline]
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>>       Camilla Lackberg has written seven blockbuster novels in her
>>native Swedish, but, until now, no one bothered to translate and
>>publish any of them in the United States.
>>       And she has a tattooed, secretive, bisexual computer hacker
>>named Lisbeth Salander to thank for it.
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>>For not being published 'til now in the U.S.?
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>>Joel
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