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Exclusive interview with "Deathly Hallows" e-book pirates
Photographed pages of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" were flooding popular BitTorrent search engine sites days ahead of the book's official publication date. Although some of these photos were barely readable, it didn't stop DSB, an e-book pirates group, to type out (i.e. transcribe) the full thing in less than 48 hours after the initial leak and to release it in readable e-book formats. MobileRead had a chat with one of the leaders of DSB.
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07-30-2007, 03:37 PM | #2 |
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07-30-2007, 04:18 PM | #3 |
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There's a poorly-disguised piece of fanfiction going around various usenet ebook groups purporting to be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The one on Pirate Bay seems authentic, though.
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07-31-2007, 02:27 AM | #4 | |
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07-31-2007, 07:53 AM | #7 | |
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In my opinion, they are wrong on both accounts. Mrs Rowling and her publishers continue to refuse to accept the fact that people are interested in e-books, despite the recent buzz and the huge amount of downloads of the leaked, transcribed "Deathly Hallows". The question is how much did the leak hurt or help the sale of "Deathly Hallows". Here a quote from the publisher of Bill Clinton's "My Life": "I can't think of an example from our publishing list where sales were hurt," says Paul Bogaards, director of publicity at Alfred A. Knopf, which published Clinton's book. "None of the leaks are going to hurt sales of Potter." |
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07-31-2007, 08:04 AM | #8 |
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The e-book scene is nothing new.
A few years ago there was the ebookz.org headquarter (was busted - doesn´t exist any more). Also there were the Wochenpakete ('weekly packets') which contained a package of collected new released e-Books. I think the e-Book scene is still very small, but will get bigger after reliable e-Book Reader will be released. |
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I agree. Will it have the same effect upon the publishing industry as Napster & Co. had on the music industry? :rolleyes2
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07-31-2007, 09:20 AM | #10 |
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Rowling and her publishers object to free copies of the book being passed around (however short-sighted they may be about the impact on sales). The thing I was disappointed to read about was her reaction to the final epilogue appearing online. I read an interview in which she was quite irate that anyone would want to read the epilogue before reading the rest of the book. She actually expressed a wish that it could have been published separately, to somehow force people to read the book first.
Now, I understand that she's spent 17 years of her life getting to this point, but that seems just a touch controlling. I'm sure most authors would prefer that people read their works as written, and if I had a series with a complicated surprise ending, I wouldn't be any too amused by people jumping into forums and spilling the ending on people who hadn't even had a chance to read the book yet. But honestly, once the book is sent to the publisher, the author really does need to let go. You can't force people to read page by page or whatever. |
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There are a lot of errors in the typed copy. There is even a case where some of the paragraphs are out of order. Now I know some of the combined paragraphs are due to the shoddy way the PDF was created. It's so shoddy that the first few (or so) paragraphs come out as one in the conversion and that's using Adobe Acrobat 8 to convert. Lots of obvious little typos. Some missed italics, and ... that should have been .... and punctuation errors as well. While it's not perfect, it's a lot better then what I have read about how bad HP6 was when the first scanned/ORCed copy came out. It was a nightmare supposedly.
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We also need the overridingly popular reason for more people to read e-books. MP3s became popular because they were ultimately mobile... but they skyrocketed when Apple created the cool-as-hell iPod that everyone wanted, even before iTunes provided easy-to-get legal content. E-books need a value-added element... something that makes e-books more desirable to more people (or at least seem better to more people), to spur buying. If a single reader turns out to have a "wow" factor, like the iPod, that could do it. Or if there is some other desirable content that can be added to the e-book, say, electronic coupons for other products, that could do it. (Imagine if buying an e-book entitled you to 50% off at your favorite fast-food chain or discounts at the sports store... you'd see kids lining up for 'em.) |
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