The Lost Symbol falls into the hands of pirates

[SpiderMatt]

The last Harry Potter book wound up with scanned pages of the book online days before its release. Pirates recruited people willing to lend a hand to typing out each page (the scanned images were too small for OCR) and the full typed out book was available a full day before the release. So yeah, the more popular a book, the more likely it is to get pirated. But if a book is that popular, it's making so much money that it doesn't even matter. I can't believe that pirated editions actually hampered sales of either Dan Brown's book or JK Rowling's.

[Format C:]

Originally Posted by SpiderMatt

The last Harry Potter book wound up with scanned pages of the book online days before its release. Pirates recruited people willing to lend a hand to typing out each page (the scanned images were too small for OCR) and the full typed out book was available a full day before the release. So yeah, the more popular a book, the more likely it is to get pirated. But if a book is that popular, it's making so much money that it doesn't even matter. I can't believe that pirated editions actually hampered sales of either Dan Brown's book or JK Rowling's.

So, they just didn't find enpugh translation volunteers for the Italian version and they had to wait the paper edition....



Like you, I don't think Rowling and Brown will die in poverty because of piracy...

[krischik]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Close, but fifteen feet away.

Wait where is my HP - 15 [ENTER] .30 [×] - ahh 4.5m - very close indeed.

And the important question: Why has the HP 35s cm⇒in and m⇒km build in but not feed⇒m