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Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked

Posted by timothy on from the so-hard-to-get-worked-up-about dept.

darkonc writes "The CBC is reporting that about 15 copies of "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" were accidently sold at a 'Great Canadien Superstore' in a suburb of Vancouver BC. The Canadian Distributor, Raincoast Books managed to get an injunction prohibiting the people who recieved the books from talking about them and demanding that they return the books to Raincoast until Friday. To add a carrot to the stick, raincoast is offering various goodies including a signed bookplate."

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  1. Stupidity by tymbow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This stuff is starting to get ridiculous. It's a book FFS, not an issue of national security!

    1. Re:Stupidity by st0rmshad0w · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Uh, I don't follow. So a few copies were sold in advance, big woop. If the series has such a high sales growth trend do you really believe a few advance copies would destroy that? And so what if it did? The most logical reason for that outcome would be that the product sucks and perhaps the creater doesn't deserve the expected returns.

      But please don't let me get in the way of any cultist fanatics or anything.

      Follow much? Thin the herd!

  2. how did this happen? by colton+cummings · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How do you think a book store "accidentally" sold 15 copies of a book that was widely publicized to be released at a later date? And if they accidentally released it early, why did only 15 copies sell?

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  3. Good Lord, Have Mercy... by dominion · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Seriously, if I were the employee who screwed this up, I'd sleep with a pistol underneath my pillow. Everybody knows the big boss man isn't too forgiving of fuck ups like this.

    Oh, wait... Harry Potter books? I thought we were talking about an international shipment of premium grade heroin.

    Who the fuck cares about some Harry Potter books coming out a little early?

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  5. Re:More Questions then Answers by Strokke · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Regardless of whether or not this was done on purpose, the publishers are going to milk this as long as they can. They are the publishers after all. That means that it is their profession to make as much money as they can on books. This book, although having amazing presale numbers, has had a lot of its marketing power stolen by the recent bombings in London. Such a tragic event has taken away any idle news coverage which would have instead been directed at Harry Potter. The people in charge of marketing are doing whatever they can do get the public's attention back on the books.
    Its pretty simple psychology they are using. Humans desire that which cannot be had, and if this book is being protected by the CIA, FBI, and Mafia, then it must be the greatest book ever.

    Oh and I'll be @ my local barnes and noble 10 pm friday night waiting in line, and then will have a contest with a few friends to see who can finish it first. No joke. People who make fun of the books as childish simply cannot appreciate a simple fun story

  6. Re:So much for the DRM by DrXym · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Harry Potter isn't going to be released as an ebook.


    Oh yes it is. My guess is within 24 hours of the official release.


    One wonders why these publishing houses don't sell their own e-book at a reasonable price and soak up most of the demand for the 'unofficial' copy.

  7. Re:More Questions then Answers by godders · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It IS ALWAYS management's fault, that's what they're for, to be responsible for fuckups. That's why they get paid more and why they get to sit around on their fat lazy arse all day long..

    They get given some work to do, delegate the work to a lower level employee, supervise them as much as required. If they lower-level employee fucks it up then it's the managers fault for not supervising enough/giving it to the wrong person/not supplying training/employing an idiot/etc/etc/etc

    So shut up.