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Sean
Well what can I say? I got emailed a link to download Deathly Hallows, thinking it was fake, I downloaded and poked around. There is no dobht this is the real thing. However being a Harry Potter fan since the books came out I felt obliged to tell Bloomsbury where I got it from, so I emailed their rights department. However, after spending thousands of pounds on getting the books delivered safely, they actually don’t care that its been released and are trying to pass it off as “This is not Real”. I can’t actually publish the email conversation due to their fancy legal signature, however here was the gist of how it went.
Me: I have recived a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, its real, photos taken from the book. Is there anyway I can help you to stop this?
Bloomsbury: Please provide a link and we will investigate, thanks.
Me: The link is http://rapidshare.com/files
Bloomsbury: Thanks for your help, you have an idea I’m sure of the amount of “Real” Harry Potter books on the internet at the moment, none of us will really know till July 21st.
Me: Denying that this is the real thing is insane. Right book, right layout, has all the needs.. It was obviously taken by someone in a bookstore. On Bloomsbury’s behalf this is pretty bad that something like this got leaked. Aren’t you going to do anything about it? I aggree, there is lots of fake stuff out there, but why would someone go and take that many fake pictures and write and publish themselves and alternitive version of Deathly Hallows?
All I can say is that this is insane, not only do they not seem to care, but they try to throw me off with a “it might be fake” response. ITS REAL! I’m a Harry Potter fan, I can tell! The storyline makes sense, the layout is correct, it has everything! Its not some fake email with the “plot” its the REAL thing! You’d think honestly after spending so much money on this book and it being so hyped up the least they would do is actually care about it! So heres I Sean, providing you with the link to download the new Harry Potter book [See Update Seven]. Since Bloomsbury really don’t seem to care!
Update one:
People who don’t think this is real, heres two images, that ARE NOT spoilers, to show you how real they are.
Front Cover [Copyright info]
Very Back Cover [Blank page and book sleeve]
Update Two:
Its been leaked to bittorrent. Now Bloomsbury are screwed! Get the torrent.
If you download the book, please digg this post! Spread the word!
Update Three:
Scholastic [The American Publisher] know and care! They have seeked a subpoena to seek the person who leaked the book! At least someone seems to care. Bloomsbury could have had the decency to update me on this. Lets see how much they “dont care” on release day..
Update Four:
Now this one is interesting to say the least! Email conversation between a yours truely and a Scholastic Representative.Me: I have recived a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, its real, photos taken from the book. Is there anyway I can help you to stop this?
Scholastic: This book has not been released.
Me: I know, I got it online.
Scholastic: I’m aware of that, however it has been leaked online.Now this is what I find wierd, the book I have is 759 [793 if you count every page] pages long. However on Mugglenet it says, Page count: 784 (US), 608 (UK).. I don’t know how JK was counting pages, but this seems a little fishy to me! Then again, if you take out the chapter list pages it does work out as exactly 759, including four blank pages. But we could count it any kind of way. Either Scholastic did fuck up, which I am more inclined to belive or, they released a fake version to stop spoilers.
Update Five:
Five Updates! Not doing bad are we? The torrents have been removed from both Demonoid.com and Mininova.
There is a fake .PDF version on the way around, its obviously not real hence me saying its fake its just fan fiction called “The Seventh Horcrux” this version is not fanfiction. [Well possibly.. who knows, but its not THAT fan-fiction.]
Update Six:
Book turned out to be the real one, interesting or what?
Update Seven:
Looks like the link has been taken down!
![Front Cover [Copyright info]](http://slocalhost.com/IMG_3626.jpg){kind=link}
![Very Back Cover [Blank page and book sleeve]](http://www.slocalhost.com/IMG_4078.jpg){kind=link}
I cant believe they would do this.. I have read numberous accounts on the internet of all the measures they have put in place to stop this from happening.. huge sums of money spent … and all for nothing! its ridiculous to not bother do anything about it after all the effort put in. Shame on Bloomsbury.. They have made a mockery of themselves.
Bloomsbury can’t get over the fact that it is real but then again they don’t seem to give a shit.
What a let down to worldwide fans that have been waiting years for this book, to have some silly twat working in a bookshop to fuck it up just days before it’s released.
o.O Trusting You To Find Somthing Like This lol
Why would they care? What can they do in the incredibly small space of time between now and official release? They’ll never get it stopped, best they can hope for is the cameras serial number turning over the offender.
Forgive me, but you do realize this is the Scholastic edition, not Bloomsbury’s edition, that has leaked, right?
Just saying; they won’t care, since as with all corporations, it’s the other guy’s problem anyways.
Yeah I do, however Scholastic didn’t even bother emailing back! Bloomsbury should however care, as it will be destroying their sales. At the end of the day, they are all going to loose out big time now, people will download and not buy the book!
Downloaded out of curiousity, want to see if it’s for real
I’ll be buy mine at 12:01am on Saturday morning!
Hey,
There is another blog report on this, and they claim that its fake and not the real version. They have identified the original author of that.
Cheers.
Kevin
Kevin,
If you could provide a link to the blog i’d be very interested. As its all over the fansties “Scholastic seeks subpoena to idenitfy person who posted scans from final ‘Potter”. They wouldn’t be looking for one of them if it wasn’t real!
Given that every parent is going to buy a copy for their 10 year old anyway, and that this won’t have a significant impact on their sales, why validate it as a real copy by responding?
Jon, theres alot more than parents of ten year olds buying this book. And with being able to download it now, older people wouldn’t have the embarassment of having to go buy it.. I don’t know, i personally think that it will impact sales… But its not like they’ll get no sales if you get me?
This is real as it gets…
Only retards are going to read it online though, it’s not worth it in new eyes.
Sean, my theory is that Bloomsbury know that the alleged leak is, after all, a fake, and thus don’t care about the little bit added publicity this gives the whole endeavor up till Friday night.
I’ve had a look at the copy, read stretches here and there, and it just doesn’t feel quite “Rowlingesque”! It seems quite well written by and large, but some parts just are fishy! I don’t want to spoil it for anyone, so I’ll abstain from examples. Suffice to say, if it is a fake, those who did it have gone a hell of a long way! Designing (or getting hold of) a 760-page FF story (weren’t the GB/US versions supposed to have a different page count?), printing and binding it to a real book, then kneeling on the floor to take “hasty” photos of each page… wow!
But we’ll know in less than two days, hooray! :-]=
Even though it matches the reviews in the NY times, I am going to go out on a limb and say- it doesn’t read like JK, I think someone ghost wrote this to match everything in wikipedia that needed tying up, and at least two book reviewers are going to get egg on their face come publication day. Because frankly - the version rolling across the net just isn’t that good. A publishing trick perhaps - a “Gotcha” coming down the line. That - or the worst harry potter book ever written. We’ll know soon enough.
Well, whats funny now is the people who said it wasn’t JK’s writing style.
It was the real book!
Don’t try to help anyone anymore. No one really wants to be helped. Pity.
I still find it hard to believe that the publisher just didn’t care about this.
But a year later, I am VERY curious to see what Bloomsbury (and to a lesser extent Schlastic, since they’re bigger) have planned to to try an continue the eight or so years of success they enjoyed with JKR as their corporate ATM.
can u send me the emaild manuscript of deathly hallows? o i could check
thanks!
can u send me the email manuscript of deathly hallows? o i could check
thanks!