As I'm sure you all know, the newest and last Harry Potter book comes out on Saturday -- or midnight tomorrow night for the faithful. Among the faithful will be Dara and Garrett at our still-alive bookstore, Keplers. Garrett, though, is more than faithful. He's already read the first 19 chapters of the book since a pirated copy has shown up on the Internet. He knows who dies, who lives, the deep dark secrets of the most beloved characters. He says people are planning on showing up at the book parties wearing tee shirts that have pithy "So-and-so dies" lines printed on them. Which leads me to my money making idea:
Garrett should go to the party (begins at 9PM for the midnight release) and open a booth. His offering: Pay me $20 and I won't yell out the next plot spoiler.
Could be dangerous, though. Visions of him being beaten to death by a pack of angry Hermiones comes to mind.
2 comments:
When the last Potter book came out a guy I know who works at shenendoah press{a printing factory} had a evil moneymaking idea and sold a copy of the book before it was released. Evil and stupid it turns out as he is still being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I don't think there is any infraction for reading it though.
Geekily speaking, thanks to our friends at the Recording Industry Artists Association (aka "the record companies"), by transferring the content to your computer to read it, you're in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a supremely bad piece of law that makes criminals out of people without them even knowing. I'm sure they're on the lookout for the culprit who leaked it this time, too, though.
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