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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I'm surprised it took that long.
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Nope, didn't take long at all. This is a comment I posted on Teleread:
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The Lost Symbol was actually pirated the DAY OF. I saw it available within a couple hours of its release. It seemed to me that someone downloaded it, stripped the DRM, and converted it to different formats. It appears to have been downloaded as a LIT and converted to HTML and ePub. I downloaded the ePub and for whatever reason the format of the book looked a little messy. I looked inside the ePub archive and saw that it was converted with Calibre (how happy it must make Kovid to know his software is being used for piracy). So instead of just using LITConverter, someone must have used Calibre to convert to ePub. Wasn’t the best result. After just checking again, I see that the commercial ePub has been cracked and offered up for free.
Just thought that info might be interesting for some. And if you’re thinking about posting something accusatory along the lines of “OMG PIRATE!” I will let you know that I have deleted the book. I was only interested in how fast the book was pirated and if the copy was the real deal (the Harry Potter books dealt with a lot of fakes popping up around the internet before their releases). Besides, I really hate Dan Brown.
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