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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. Re:What's the big deal? by HyperChicken · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Stop pointing out logical flaws.

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  2. Re:So much for the DRM by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    lol

  3. Publicity Stunt by pandrijeczko · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The copies were deliberately sold so it would make the news so that more mindless sheeple would end up queuing for their copies outside the bookshops at midnight on Saturday.

    Move along, nothing to see here...

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  4. Re:Spoilers! by Tim+C · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The stores that got them late lost out on a lot of sales... the solution is the stores enter into a voluntary agreement (if they do not agree the books arent shipped until after the release date)

    Well, it may be voluntary, but it doesn't sound like the stores really have a lot of choice, unless they want to "miss out on a lot of sales".

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