Independent shops protested loudest, but even Waterstones, the UK's largest dedicated chain bookstore, could not compete with the supermarket price. This caused uproar from traditional UK booksellers who argued they had no hope of competing in those conditions. Other retail chains then also offered the book at discounted prices. UK supermarkets, having already taken pre-orders for the book at a heavily discounted price, sparked a price war two days before the book's launch by announcing they would sell it for just £5 a copy. Scholastic filed for damages in Chicago's Circuit Court of Cook County, claiming that DeepDiscount engaged in a "complete and flagrant violation of the agreements that they knew were part of the carefully constructed release of this eagerly awaited book." Some of the early release books soon appeared on eBay, in one case being sold to Publishers Weekly for $250. Scholastic announced that it would be launching legal action against and its distributor, Levy Home Entertainment. One reader in Maryland received a copy of the book in the mail from four days before it was launched. Scholastic announced that approximately one-ten-thousandth (0.0001) of the US supply had been shipped early - interpreted to mean about 1,200 copies. The photographs later appeared on websites and peer-to-peer networks, leading Scholastic to seek a subpoena in order to identify one source. On July 16, a set of photographs representing all 759 pages of the US edition was leaked and was fully transcribed prior to the official release date. In the week before its release, a number of texts purporting to be genuine leaks appeared in various forms.
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There was speculation that some shops would break the embargo and distribute copies of the book early, as the penalty imposed for previous installments - that the distributor would not be supplied with any further copies of the series - would no longer be a deterrent. Arthur Levine, US editor of the Harry Potter series, denied distributing any copies of Deathly Hallows in advance for press review, but two US papers published early reviews anyway. Rowling toured the US in October 2007, including her famous event at Carnegie Hall in New York City where she outed Dumbledore as being gay.īloomsbury invested £10 million in an attempt to keep the book's contents secure until the release date. On the night of the launch, Rowling participated in an all-night book signing and reading at the Natural History Museum in London with 1,700 guests. She changed it to "All was well," to make it clear that Harry's mission was over. She originally claimed the final word in the book would be "scar." She revealed that the original final sentence was something like "Only those who he loved could see his lightning scar." She changed this because it was a bit too ambiguous, and she didn't want people to think Voldemort would rise again. Rowling said that the epilogue was written "in something like 1990," as part of her earliest work on the series.
Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11 January 2007." In a statement on her website she said, "I've never felt such a mixture of extreme emotions in my life, never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric." She ended her message by saying " Deathly Hallows is my favorite, and that is the most wonderful way to finish the series." She signed the marble-bust of Hermes in her room so that it said: "J.K. Rowling completed the final chapters of Deathly Hallows in room 652 of the Balmoral Hotel. Rowling mentioned Harry Potter and The Elder Wand and Harry Potter and t he Peverell Quest as the two other titles she was considering. The Deathly Hallows title was released to the public on December 21, 2006, via a special Christmas-themed hangman puzzle on Rowling's website.
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