A scant 12 hours after being released in stores, fans have gone after J.K. Rowling's new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tome wielding OCR software and
released a pirated e-book version of the novel. Part of the impetus seems to be the fact that Rowling herself has been against releasing an official version of number six in the Potter series for e-book readers out of fear of piracy, a strategy which appears to have, well, backfired. The book has now been scanned and proofread, and is available in TXT and HTML formats on web servers across the world.
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Subscribe to commentsAlex EzellJul 16th 2005 4:15PM
The audio book is already out on the web as well. She's still richer than the queen.
Alex AndersonJul 16th 2005 4:23PM
The book has been available to read on the 'net since about 10:30 last night PST.
taJul 17th 2005 5:02AM
actually, i was surprised to find out that the book was just being launched yesterday. i thought it was out for a while now. i got it from limewire at least a month ago. didn't even read it. pdf format.
daltonJul 17th 2005 11:20AM
The PDF you found a month ago was a fake. The guy does it every time JK Rowling writes a new book, and releases it a month or so before the real one comes out. Hey, great buzz for him, but they're absolutely terrible.
The PDF versions of the actual book started trickling out the morning after the release of the book to stores, so I'd say they did a pretty good job of keeping things quiet.
SamJul 21st 2005 4:13PM
Hey can you tell me where to get the e-book and the audio book????!!!!