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Old 04-16-2012, 02:03 AM   #439
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Originally Posted by BillSmithBooks View Post
IMO, Rowling realized how much money she was losing out on by not having ebooks out (pirated ecopies of Deathly Hallows were on the torrents within what, 24 hours of the book coming out?).
Ecopies of DH were around before the book came out. The "carpet version" was photographed, not scanned, so it was clear it wasn't a forgery. Rumour had it some store employee had grabbed a copy before the release date, took pictures of it, and sent it out to the torrents.

It was fairly unreadable, though. OCR'd versions took a few hours after the release date.
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