Digital Harry Potter manuscript allegedly stolen

Alexander Turcic · 06-22-2007, 11:22 AM

Minor and speculative, we know, but according to various news sources, a villainous hacker who goes by the name Gabriel has found his way into a computer at Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury and managed to steal a digital copy of J.K. Rowling's seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Wait, did we hear digital copy? Obviously, this story must be a hoax, because, really, as we all know, Mrs Rowling vehemently refuses to port Harry into the digital paper world.

In any case, you can currently pre-order the next and last Potter with guaranteed date delivery and at 50% off its retail price.

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JSWolf · 06-22-2007, 11:27 AM

There has to be a digital copy to send to the printing machine. And I highly doubt Rowling would be tying her books on a typewriter.

yvanleterrible · 06-22-2007, 11:30 AM

Every book published since the nineties is in digital format for printing purposes. HP6 was available on Internet in the week following its publishing. This one will have beaten it.

JSWolf · 06-22-2007, 11:31 AM

HP6 however was scanned from the hardcopy.

The problem was they kept HP7 on a computer internet accessible.

NatCh · 06-22-2007, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

And I highly doubt Rowling would be tying her books on a typewriter.

It's a well known fact that she writes them out on napkins at th local pub.

Quote:

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

HP6 was available on Internet in the week following its publishing.

It was within 24 hours, wasn't it? This time it might co-or even pre-release the paper, by the sound of it.

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

The problem was they kept HP7 on a computer internet accessible.

That would seem to have been a Very Bad Idea. I bet publishers don't usually have all that heavy a layer of ICE either.

CTH · 06-22-2007, 12:46 PM

what I have heard it is a fake, it should be this fan-fiction
http://www.melindaleo.com/fics/tsh/tsh01.htm

could be several diffirent ones out, but this is circulating the net on various piratenetworks and claiming to be the real thing. (I don't think the author to the fan-fiction claims that)
From what I have heard was it a pretty good fan-fiction

Hadrien · 06-22-2007, 12:51 PM

I guess that they kept the files for InDesign... A single click and you get a PDF or Epub version ;-)

TadW · 06-22-2007, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Hadrien

I guess that they kept the files for InDesign... A single click and you get a PDF or Epub version ;-)

Hahaha, true... straight from InDesign to Adobe Digital Editions

Adobe would be happy for all the free publicity they'd get.

NatCh · 06-22-2007, 12:59 PM

There's no such thing as 'bad' publicity ... especially if it's free!

yvanleterrible · 06-22-2007, 01:07 PM

Speaking of publicity, when is HP7 due ?

rwsimon · 06-22-2007, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CTH

what I have heard it is a fake, it should be this fan-fiction
http://www.melindaleo.com/fics/tsh/tsh01.htm

could be several diffirent ones out, but this is circulating the net on various piratenetworks and claiming to be the real thing. (I don't think the author to the fan-fiction claims that)
From what I have heard was it a pretty good fan-fiction

This is fan fiction and it is quite good - well worth reading actually. But the alleged spoilers on the web at the moment are definitely not from this particular work. What is reported as the ending does not take place in the melinda leo book.

NatCh · 06-22-2007, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Speaking of publicity, when is HP7 due ?

July 21st

bigumpah · 06-22-2007, 01:40 PM

The publication date for Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows will be July 21st, 2007.

CommanderROR · 06-22-2007, 05:31 PM

I really wonder how many enterprising fans have written/are writing Harry Potter 7 and will use this "leak", be it true or fake to get their version of HP7 out to the hungry masses.

How do we know when it's real?

Could be interesting to collect those "leaked" texts and read them, then compre them to the "real thing"...who knows...some of the forgings might be better than the original...

NatCh · 06-22-2007, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by CommanderROR

How do we know when it's real?

Well, eventually (29 days, now) we'll have the actual printed text to refer to. Huh, that's actually a pretty ironic statement, don't you think?

06-22-2007, 11:22 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Digital Harry Potter manuscript allegedly stolen Minor and speculative, we know, but according to various news sources, a villainous hacker who goes by the name Gabriel has found his way into a computer at Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury and managed to steal a digital copy of J.K. Rowling's seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Wait, did we hear digital copy? Obviously, this story must be a hoax, because, really, as we all know, Mrs Rowling vehemently refuses to port Harry into the digital paper world. In any case, you can currently pre-order the next and last Potter with guaranteed date delivery and at 50% off its retail price. [via Dear Author] Related: Harry Potter 6 e-book already being pirated!

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CTH Zealot Posts: 129 Karma: 1000153 Join Date: Jan 2007	what I have heard it is a fake, it should be this fan-fiction http://www.melindaleo.com/fics/tsh/tsh01.htm could be several diffirent ones out, but this is circulating the net on various piratenetworks and claiming to be the real thing. (I don't think the author to the fan-fiction claims that) From what I have heard was it a pretty good fan-fiction

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Hadrien Feedbooks.com Co-Founder Posts: 2,263 Karma: 145123 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Paris, France Device: Sony PRS-t-1/350/300/500/505/600/700, Nexus S, iPad	I guess that they kept the files for InDesign... A single click and you get a PDF or Epub version ;-)

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CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	I really wonder how many enterprising fans have written/are writing Harry Potter 7 and will use this "leak", be it true or fake to get their version of HP7 out to the hungry masses. How do we know when it's real? Could be interesting to collect those "leaked" texts and read them, then compre them to the "real thing"...who knows...some of the forgings might be better than the original...