Kidding!
[b]The Potter lockdown[/b]Grocers are not usually candidates for a top-level security operation - except, of course, for the vans carrying the takings to the bank.
Asda, though, is reportedly at the centre of just such a vast, shadowy and high-cost system involving codes, security cameras, satellite tracking systems and specially-trained guards.
Not to protect its food, that is.
Instead, this is the latest twist in the Harry Potter phenomenon: one that requires the next and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to arrive at Asda stores shrouded in the utmost secrecy.
Amazon UK, for its part, has preordered some 2 million copies, and has also adopted carefully-crafted plans to make sure its fans do not have access to the 608-page tome before midnight on Friday.
In fact, some estimates put the cost of keeping the seventh tome in the Potter series away from prying eyes ahead of its official release at £10m.
Part of that cost covers the arrangements for dedicated warehousing, involving 24-hour protection and even guard dogs.
But anecdotes in the press have highlighted the lengths to which the publisher, Bloomsbury, has apparently gone to make sure the release date stays sacrosanct.
Apocryphal, perhaps - but reports have said that in Germany the publishers have been ordered to work in the semi-dark, so that no-one can be lured into dipping into the book ahead of time.
And in the UK, printing employees have been warned that they could be jobless if they reveal any details.
But despite the worldwide security operations, some 1,200 readers in the US have been sent the books early - by mistake.
According to UK book industry site thebookseller.com, US publisher Scholastic has confirmed that Levy Home Entertainment and DeepDiscount.com had both sent out the book before they were meant to.
Till now, of course, the publishers have had at their disposal the ultimate weapon: the threat that anyone who broke the embargo might not get the next Potter blockbuster.
Obviously, that sanction no longer applies.
nooooooOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
lol
it already enough like star wars, what with all the terrible writing and annoying characters. all its missing is the good music!!
:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Don't just do something! Stand there.
:roll:
All that for a book?
Harry & Voldemort die in this...
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It's not so much for the book but for what the book represents.
If its true [b]Thanx[/b] for spoiling the book for me. :evil:
A rose protects its beauty with thorns..a woman protects hers with a veil
lol... what makes you think thats true?
Im guessing.... relax. And if that is what happens AND IM NOT SAYING THAT IS... just remember i said so first.
And Beast what does the Book represent??
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how silly millions of people are
Don't just do something! Stand there.
It represents loads and loads of MONEY.
Although, many bookstores (and others) make a loss on the Harry Potter books. All the security, advertising, extra staff increases overheads. But in the long term it pays off because more people come into book shops, they buy more than just Harry Potter, and people get into books more generally.
Who cares. Them adults queueing for days to get a book at midnight, get a life man. :roll:
Religion is the heart in a heartless world.
They have one and probably enjoy it very much what with reading Harry Potter et al.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
ive been reading since i was a kid
i love books so much that i aced my english GCSE and A levels
most of my pocket money is spent on books
it takes me a about an hour or two to get thru a novel
i visit the library reg
however i have NEVER been inclined to get into this hairy puttar craze
im proud to admit that i have not read or seen a single lamo book/film
[url=http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5012/5012_01.asp]Harry Potter: Very Dangerous[/url]
[size=10]The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.[/size]
[size=9]Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)[/size]
Me neither. I'm saying them adults are sad queueing for days to get a copy at midnight coz it just shows how important the book is to them, haven't they got more important things in their lives? Can't they wait till 9am to buy the book, or are they afraid that someone might spoil the story for them? Heavens above, we wouldn't want that, would we?
Religion is the heart in a heartless world.
Asda started selling the book at 12.01 in the moring. Ppl started queuing up for it like 3 hour before in the car park. They sold out in the first day. Ive read the last couple of pages at work coz everybody was like Harry Potter is suppose to die. I wont spoil it for those Harry Potter geeks
No not the gum drop buttons! – Gingy
Haven't you heard?
Queueing up is the new "in" thing. Considered kind of cool.
Go to youtube and type in queue and watch the number of clips you get.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Okay I've read the book and I can tell you right now that Voldemort is NOT Harry's father.
The REAL secret ending is that Harry's father is...
*Spoiler alert*
DARTH VADER.
He really got around in his younger years.
So what will JK do now?
maybe she'll go back to singing with Jamiroquai
Don't just do something! Stand there.
she said shes gonna continue writing... but just not HP books.
So basicly more books for kids
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No not the gum drop buttons! – Gingy
Lol LilSis, unfortunately i'm afraid you can't certify a book as being 'lame' until you've actually bothered to read it.
and for those of u who are yet to read the book - don't believe any of the 'spoilers' on here, they're not true... :roll: (except for Dave's Darth Vader one maybe... lol :P)
[size=9]I NEVER WORE IT BECAUSE OF THE TALIBAN, MOTHER. I LIKE THE [b]MODESTY[/b] AND [b]PROTECTION[/b] IT AFFORDS ME FROM THE EYES OF MEN.[/size] [url=http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Dust.html]Dust, X-Men[/url]
Dusty!
where've you been?
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She locked herself away from from the world in order to avoid Harry Potter spoilers. Now that she's read the book she's back out into the wilderness.
exactly beast, how did u guess?! :roll: no actually i've been drowning in work for the last coupla months, like most of you i expect, but i just didn't have much free time at all. thankfully got a break now so thought i'd see what the forum has been up to.
[size=9]I NEVER WORE IT BECAUSE OF THE TALIBAN, MOTHER. I LIKE THE [b]MODESTY[/b] AND [b]PROTECTION[/b] IT AFFORDS ME FROM THE EYES OF MEN.[/size] [url=http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Dust.html]Dust, X-Men[/url]
Good to have you back Sis!!!!
Who is the cat of the Forum? MEZ!
Your damn right!
I read first 6 books but I am not buying anymore.
I will be throwing out all my collection of books and of films.
Ayatollah rightly named America as "Great Satan".
www.presstv.ir
PS got no idea if you are really serious or not...
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Harry Potter is a Zionist plot???
Have these people got nothing better to do than ban childrens' books?
This article you posted does read as if its a spoof, btw
Don't just do something! Stand there.
have you seen The Waterboy?
"It's the Devil!"
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
A zionist plot! come on!
You are really making me paranoid malik, the rate you are going at will make me believe that everything around me is a zionist plot
"Purity is half of faith.......Prayer is the light...patience is illumination; and the Quran is an argument for or against you. Everyone starts his day and is a vendor of his soul, either freeing it or bringing about its ruin." Muslim
LOL... H2O... H2O!!!!
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I still haven't bought the new Harry Potter book. I'll definitely buy it tomorrow.
"Purity is half of faith.......Prayer is the light...patience is illumination; and the Quran is an argument for or against you. Everyone starts his day and is a vendor of his soul, either freeing it or bringing about its ruin." Muslim