Pirated Chinese Harry Potter Already Being Sold

The wizards of China's thriving piracy industry have worked their magic again and produced a rush translation of the latest Harry Potter book.

Though it's missing some paragraphs and gets a couple of facts wrong, an unauthorized Chinese version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was on sale Sunday in Beijing, just two weeks after the book appeared in English.

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First Editions Worth Up To $20,000

Tim Miller of Flatsigned.com :

"Bloomsbury printed 1,000 copies of the first edition in the U.K.," Miller told us. "Of those, 500 went to libraries, and were read so many times that they were literally destroyed. Only 500 copies were sold in bookstores. Those U.K. first editions of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone will sell for between $20,000 and $40,000."

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JK Rowling Overdosed On Nicotine While Writing 'Goblet Of Fire'

JK Rowling says she made herself ill penning 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' by taking up smoking again and using nicotine gum at the same time.

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Harry Potter Book Brings People To The Stores, Many Leave With Additional Purchases

About 40 percent of customers who bought the latest Potter book at Barnes & Noble also bought another item, Chief Executive Steve Riggio said. The other items ranged from other Harry Potter-related products, including earlier installments or the audio edition of the current book, to other non-related books, Riggio said.

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New Harry Potter Book Breaking Records In US

The new Harry Potter book sold an astonishing 6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours, smashing the record held by the previous Potter release. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" averaged better than 250,000 sales per hour, more than the vast majority of books sell in a lifetime

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Tonight's The Night !! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The latest Harry Potter book is due to hit the shops at midnight tonight.

Bookstores Worldwide are opening at midnight so that fans of the teenage wizard can get their hands on the latest adventures of the boy wizard "hot off the press".

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Current Pope Has Been A Longtime Opponent Of Harry Potter

THE Pope has said that the Harry Potter books "erode Christianity in the soul" of young people, a German writer claims.

Bavarian-based Roman Catholic Gabriele Kuby, who wrote a book criticising JK Rowling's blockbusters, said the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger made the comments in an exchange of letters two years ago.


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14 Year Old Boy To Interview Rowling

A teenage Harry Potter fan has won the chance to do the only interview with JK Rowling on UK television just hours after her sixth book goes on sale.
Owen Jones, 14, from Cardiff, was shortlisted from thousands of fans after judges liked his list of questions for the author.

Owen said: "I told the judges I would like to ask her if Harry Potter's life was a kind of childhood fantasy for her, and of course, what's going to happen in the next book.

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Less Merchandising This Time Around

Associated Press Reports: "As publication nears for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," to be unveiled to the world July 16, expect some of the usual midnight madness and at least one new twist: less Potter merchandise."

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Publishers daughter influenced his decision to sign Rowling

Nigel Newton, the chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing reveals today, the first Harry Potter manuscript was rejected by all of his major rivals. And it was only the pester-power of his daughter, Alice - who read a chapter and demanded more - that finally convinced the publisher he had a winner on his hands.

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