New Potter Book May Have Made Its Way to Web

by nk | July 18, 2007 at 05:40 am

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Frustrating perhaps the most elaborately orchestrated marketing machine ever mobilized for a book, photographs of what appeared to be every single page of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the breathlessly awaited seventh and final installment in the series by J. K. Rowling, were circulating on the Web yesterday.

[...]photographs of what appeared to be each pair of facing pages of a copy
of the book. The pictures, which could be downloaded through sites like
the Pirate Bay and MediaFire

By now, certain inviduals re-typed the text of the first ten chapters with the following surely to follow. Now, according to various reports Bloomsbury spent 20 million USD to prevent this leak -- in vain. Here is a hint, for the next craze, if ever there will be one: pay 10 000 to, say, five fans to write fanfic -- they do so anyways -- create small runs of the fakes with the same cover. And, of course, leak the fakes with low-quality photos / scans. If someone manages to leak the original, noone will have any idea which is fake and which one is not.