Scholastic Threatens Lawsuit, Rowling Searches Desperately For M.I.B. Memory Eraser Thingy
By Aaron Hierholzer
Attention Potter fans: Harry DIES! Just kidding. We don’t know. We would if we’d pre-ordered from DeepDiscount.com, though. Scholastic Inc., Potter’s US publisher, announced “immediate legal action” against both aforementioned e-tailer and distributor Levy Home Entertainment for shipping books ahead of the 12:01 AM Saturday release. Wednesday’s statement from Scholastic alleges forbidden copies made it to customers as early as Tuesday the 17th.
Rowling herself pleaded with readers to keep plot developments hush-hush, and Scholastic asks that early recipients hide the illicit packages. Uh-huh. Reports indicate that most early copies are safely stowed in padlocked sock drawers across the nation, but at least one spoilsport uploaded photos of the whole thing to Gaia Online.
Diehard Pottermaniacs are advised to stay indoors, avoiding all forms of media, earplugs firmly in place, until tentatively heading to their local big-box bookstores for the magic moment tomorrow night.
July 24th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
People seemed to have forgotten the added bonus to Pottermania - namely that the spouses of those who dedicated the weekend to reading the entire book have received a mini-vacation (or have been temporarily widowed, depending on how you look at it).