Harry Potter Mania in Qatar
I’m sure you’ve heard, read and watched the mania that is Harry Potter. I don’t want to elaborate on it further as I’m sure you’re already tired of it. You can read Dimpz blog about their encounter with Potter Mania last Saturday in Hyatt Plaza, Qatar.
I didn’t get myself a copy of the book. Let me type that again; I didn’t buy myself a hardbound copy of the book. A day before the actual release (it was released midnight of Saturday), a leaked copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was already circulating the P2P community through PirateBay. It was said to be an original copy of Deathly Hallows with each page shot with a digital camera and published as JPGs. It was reported to have 759 pages! Imagine all the trouble that guy/gal had to go through just to be able to get Deathly Hollows online! As usual, lawyers were trying to stop other sites from publishing the same torrent but laws in the US are different from were PirateBay has their servers. Bloomsbury, the publisher of the book, criticized PirateBay for the release. However, they kept mum on whether it was the authentic copy or not.
As for me, I’ll have to wait till Dimpz lends me her copy. She was supposed to finish another book first but decided to read Harry Potter first. That means I could clean up the house, without Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows distracting me, before Mavis and Xiane arrives this Thursday night! That also means that I have to wait to know if Harry Potter died or lived, or if Hermione and Ron gets to be a couple.
Here are some facts about the launch of the book.
I didn’t get myself a copy of the book. Let me type that again; I didn’t buy myself a hardbound copy of the book. A day before the actual release (it was released midnight of Saturday), a leaked copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was already circulating the P2P community through PirateBay. It was said to be an original copy of Deathly Hallows with each page shot with a digital camera and published as JPGs. It was reported to have 759 pages! Imagine all the trouble that guy/gal had to go through just to be able to get Deathly Hollows online! As usual, lawyers were trying to stop other sites from publishing the same torrent but laws in the US are different from were PirateBay has their servers. Bloomsbury, the publisher of the book, criticized PirateBay for the release. However, they kept mum on whether it was the authentic copy or not.
As for me, I’ll have to wait till Dimpz lends me her copy. She was supposed to finish another book first but decided to read Harry Potter first. That means I could clean up the house, without Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows distracting me, before Mavis and Xiane arrives this Thursday night! That also means that I have to wait to know if Harry Potter died or lived, or if Hermione and Ron gets to be a couple.
Here are some facts about the launch of the book.
- 2 million + copies were reserved through Amazon.com
- Barnes and Noble sold 1.8 million copies in the first 2 days of its realease, 560,000 on the first hour, at a rate of 150 copies per second.
- A total of 8.3 million copies were sold in the United States during the first 24 hours.
- In the UK, 2.65 million copies were sold on the first 24 hours.
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