'Harry Potter' Fakes Are Thriving in China
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › August 01, 2007
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SHANGHAI, China -- Chinese readers could not wait for the official release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the much- anticipated seventh and concluding book in the series, a little more than a week ago. But unlike fidgety fans elsewhere, they could do something about it.
A book with the same title came out a full 10 days before the official worldwide English-language release on July 21 -- a wholly unauthorized version that bears nothing in common with the instant best-seller written by J.K. Rowling.See the full content of this document
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'Harry Potter' Fakes Are Thriving in China
The iterations of Potter fraud and imitation here are, in fact, so copious they must be peeled back layer by layer. There are the books, like the phony seventh novel, that masquerade as works written by Rowling. There are the copies of the genuine items, in both English and Chinese, scanned, reprinted, bound and sold for a fraction of the price of the authorized texts.
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