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Harry Potter 6 already available in unauthorized e-book format
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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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Alex Ezell said 4:15PM on 7-16-2005
The audio book is already out on the web as well. She's still richer than the queen.
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Alex Anderson said 4:23PM on 7-16-2005
The book has been available to read on the 'net since about 10:30 last night PST.
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ta said 5:02AM on 7-17-2005
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.
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dalton said 11:20AM on 7-17-2005
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.
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Sam said 4:13PM on 7-21-2005
Hey can you tell me where to get the e-book and the audio book????!!!!
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