Filippo Bernardini gab sich als Hunderte von Personen aus der Verlagsbranche aus, um an Werke von Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney und Ian McEwan zu gelangen, hatte aber nie die Absicht, die Bücher an die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen(via theguardian.com):
«According to The Bookseller (Simon & Schuster), in court papers published last week Bernardini said he never leaked the manuscripts he obtained, but “wanted to keep them closely to my chest and be one of the fewest to cherish them before anyone else, before they ended up in bookshops”.