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The ONLY sane response is to [do some act which MR insists I cannot post here - thus rather than vent my spleen I have inserted this 'safe' comment to explain why I've deleted my original post]. AND [Oops! Can't let 'the chilluns' know what I want to have 'the publishers' be reminded of'] the publishers and everyone else that [I figure everyone with even half a brain can figure this out, but we cannot state such ideas, even as part of a 'rant' or 'vent']. Derek Last edited by delphidb96; 07-17-2009 at 12:19 PM. |
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The only NYT article I can find about this says they haven't decided yet when the ebook will be released (it's an article about when to release ebooks). Not that it won't be released at the same time, but just that they're weighing options (which any business will do). I'm sure the darknet version will be out no later than the next day (if not before the official release) regardless of the status of an official release. |
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They were; a handful of stores had accidentally sold a few copies a few days before the release date. It's also possible that some bookstore employee grabbed one to copy.
The one that hit the web strongly wasn't OCRd at all--it was jpg photographs of someone holding the book open; the pages were almost unreadable, and the person's fingers could be seen holding the pages. That made it very unlikely to be a forgery. Any pre-release text version would've been ignored as a probable fake. (There was a fanfic that was set in Harry's 7th year that was being passed around as the final book, but people who keep up with fanfic could either identify the story, or recognize the fanfic tropes that made it unlikely to be real.) |
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And the first electronic copy of Harry otter #7 was a badly typed in copy that used those photos as the source.
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It is a nice example of how much people will do to get that book without having to pay the HB pice...
But I'm afraid most publishers won't see the light until they're underground and a younger generation has taken over (the generation that has grown up with the concept of electronic books) |
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Time to dig this one up:
https://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b93274/?si=0 All a storm in a glass of water! |
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heck, if I was a publisher I would have my own darknet site that seemed to offer every danged one of the company's works a week or so before they hit the shelves...and I would charge for the ability to download as well as gather all the marketing data one could about the visitors...it will not harm the HB sales at all and would be a big resource for the business likely either turning a small profit or at least covering it's overhead...leaving the profits being the demographic data gathered. Ever wonder if any publishers have already done something like this? ![]() |
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Fictionwise
Its available for pre-order at Fictionwise, though only in ereader format as of 8/11
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