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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