Harry Potter already online
p2pnet.net News:- The Harry Potter saga officially continued at 12:01 am Saturday and “averaged more than 250,000 sales per hour in its first full day on the market, says Reuters.
But that’s not all. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince had been scanned in and proof-read about 12 hours after it was on the shelves, says mobileread.com, going on.
Bookstores across the globe simultaneously flung open their doors at GMT 2301 on Friday night to allow Harry Potter fans all over the world to snatch up the latest volume of the boy-wizard’s adventures. Some of them didn’t start reading the paper book right away; instead, they went to the next scanning device and started running their OCR software on little Potter.
In a joint-effort the pirates are now meeting in dedicated IRC channels with imaginative names such as #pottermania or #potterwork to spread the work of scanning and proofreading.
Audio copies [read podcasts] are available, says Teleread, offering up this sample.
Is it original or just an unauthorized pick-up of a legal CD or cassette? asks the post. I don`t know for sure, but strongly suspect pick-up`.
Back in the offline world, almost seven million copies sold in the US alone within first 24 hours, says Reuters, adding:
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceSales for the sixth installment of J.K. Rowling’s fantasy series easily beat Harry Potter V, `Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,` which was released in 2003 and sold 5 million copies in the first 24 hours.
(Thanks, Jason B)
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See:-
Reuters – Harry VI flies off shelves, July 18, 2005
mobileread.com – Harry Potter 6 e-book already being pirated!, July 16, 2005
Teleread – Illegal but beautifully read: Net.radio performance of new Harry Potter book, July 16, 2005
July 18th, 2005 at 1:37 pm
Yup,
See what “Piracy” did to sales ……
Not a damn thing.
Another spectacular proof that downloads have virtually
no effect on product sales.
BTW,
Rowling has said herself that she has no intention of ever
offering her potter titles as e-books …… ROFL
July 18th, 2005 at 7:54 pm
12 hours? gee, that’s later than the last book. i remember being online when book 5 started sales, and within 2 hours audio books, scans, and ebooks of it were on all p2p nets.
March 27th, 2007 at 1:40 am