on the website they are saying its $17.87

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5499231&povid=cat14503-env15844-module89686-lLink1

7/16/2007 5:17:03 PM

The LA Times is reporting that the US Harry Potter publisher obtained a subpoena to learn the identity of a user who allegedly posted copies of Deathly Hallows on a California website.

Scholastic said in a court filing Monday that "materials hosted on Photobucket.com's system" contain materials that infringe copyrights owned by Scholastic and J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. Photobucket.com, a News Corp. unit, is a website for sharing photos and videos on social networks such as MySpace.

The subpoena was sent to Gaia Interactive Inc. in San Jose seeking the identity of a user on gaiaonline.com, a social network, according to the filing in San Francisco federal court.

Gaia complied with the subpoena, removed the material and temporarily banned the user from the site, said Gaia spokesman Bill Danon.

7/17/2007 2:07:07 PM

yeah, this is getting nuts...the download links are over on wwtdd.com. i'll never understand it

7/17/2007 2:10:16 PM

i dont want to see anything

I just want to read it and enjoy it this weekend

Im going to Walmart at like 2am

7/17/2007 2:34:03 PM

Maybe I'll see you at Walmart.



P.S. http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004923.html

7/17/2007 3:09:50 PM

if you are going to the one in Smithfield then maybe

7/17/2007 3:30:43 PM

Just called Walmart and spoke with manager & book department. They do not know the price they are selling the book for Friday night. And if I pre-order I have to wait for delivery, can't pick it up at store. But the price will definately be higher than the Pre-order price which is what I figured.

Guess I am back to original plan...pre-order from my Local Mall and be in line at Midnight...think they closing doors around 2/3 am and then u have to wait for normal business hours.


III

7/17/2007 5:14:24 PM

I've always picked up my copies the next morning at Target.

7/17/2007 5:39:06 PM

My friend had her book delivered today out of the blue.

7/17/2007 7:02:11 PM

So when does this book come out?

7/17/2007 7:14:18 PM

This coming Saturday, July 21st.

7/17/2007 8:59:46 PM

My birthday is the 19th, ITS LIKE THEY KNOW OR SOMETHING! man god(or whoever) likes me

7/17/2007 9:12:08 PM

Quote :

"My friend had her book delivered today out of the blue. "

wtf?

7/18/2007 11:38:53 AM

yeah i know other people that got theirs too...someone obviously screwed up

7/18/2007 11:45:57 AM

^ Why can they ever screw up so I get mine early?

7/18/2007 12:15:31 PM

One year they screwed mine up and I got it two weeks late I was so pissed

7/18/2007 12:26:23 PM

Early Deliveries...thats either really fuked up or a really nice treat.

Come on Friday night...


III

7/18/2007 1:32:34 PM

Somebody wrote spoilers all over the free expression tunnel

7/18/2007 1:53:06 PM

haha

douchebags.


oh, and BTW:

the guy that leaked all these pictures of the book left his metadata on the jpegs. That means it's only a matter of time before scholastic knows the serial number of the camera used.


I'm predicting a conviction.

White Males beware. JK Rowling is coming for your first born.

[Edited on July 18, 2007 at 2:08 PM. Reason : haha]

7/18/2007 2:05:40 PM

they arlready know the serial, matter of whether its registered or not

7/18/2007 3:34:59 PM

Quote :

"With each installment, the “Potter” series has grown increasingly dark, and this volume — a copy of which was purchased at a New York City store yesterday, though the book is embargoed for release until 12:01 a.m. on Saturday — is no exception. "

Wait. What?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/books/19potter.html (possible spoilers)

7/19/2007 10:15:45 AM

That was a great article. I didn't think it gave away too much I don't think. Thanks for posting that!

7/19/2007 10:29:29 AM

Dear Amazon,

I hope you don't use DHL.

Thanks,

Engin

7/19/2007 10:50:56 AM

you preordered on Amazon...

I hope you weren't planning on starting the book til like 5pm Saturday

7/19/2007 10:57:12 AM

JK has said someone will do magic late in life....

I predict it is Dudley...but I hope not....I was hoping for Filch or someone

7/19/2007 11:21:47 AM

so how many spinoffs are going to come of there series?

there's no way she's going to stop cold turkey after all this

7/19/2007 11:24:17 AM

^ link or she never said it

7/19/2007 11:24:53 AM

http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=49787

That is where I got the information and a huge thread about who will do magic "late" in life...

Also this website has quotes and interviews from her about every character and book

http://www.accio-quote.org

7/19/2007 11:34:11 AM

36 hrs more

7/19/2007 12:01:10 PM

^^ http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/0399-barnesandnoble.html#magic

After the whole quickspell thing, my guess is Argus Filch.

7/19/2007 1:42:21 PM

^ or maybe the old women that testified for harry in 5 (lives near the dursleys)

7/19/2007 3:41:27 PM

Filch and Mrs. Figg are both Squibs, so it could be either one

7/19/2007 3:52:43 PM

the definition of "poetic justice" would be Dudley.

7/19/2007 4:00:32 PM

Maybe Petunia?[/shot in the dark]

7/19/2007 4:37:24 PM

I dunno...I say it will be Dudley. Since he is so freaked out about magic and his mother had a magical sister.

7/19/2007 5:00:08 PM

I'm pretty sure I read that it won't be a squib.

7/19/2007 6:43:31 PM

Alright, just left Barnes and Nobles with my bracelet. I am group "B." So, in the 50-100 crowd. Not too bad, considering there were hundreds of people still in line when I left.

7/20/2007 9:58:48 AM

oh jesus christ people...

7/20/2007 10:08:07 AM

I was told they would not start giving out bracelets until 4PM. Which B&N did you go to? The one in Cary?

7/20/2007 10:40:23 AM

The one in Greensboro. There were people lined up at 5:30am for the bracelets. I didn't get there until 8am and they started handing them out at 9am.

7/20/2007 10:44:30 AM

I just called the one in cary...they start giving them out at 4PM

7/20/2007 10:50:26 AM

I'll be at the B&N in Greensboro since my girlfriend works there...possibly helping out with "making potions"

7/20/2007 11:39:15 AM

Did she dress up today? I saw a couple of B&N employees in wizard garb.

7/20/2007 11:58:25 AM

Anyone know which Walmarts are 24 hours? I checked the website and they are all "subject to change". I was going to do the B&N thing, but Im not really feeling like hanging around there for God knows how long, and if Im out late anyhow it wont be that much trouble to stop by one on the way home .

7/20/2007 2:17:02 PM

Rocky Mount, FTW.


No lines, no problems.

7/20/2007 2:23:38 PM

^^my sisters and I are going to the one on New Bern after midnight

It's kind of in the ghetto, so I assume there won't be a bad line

7/20/2007 2:53:51 PM

24 hour Walmarts in the area:

Brier Creek
Glenwood
New Bern Ave.
Wake Forest Rd. (it might technically be on New Hope Church)
Fuquay

7/20/2007 4:23:21 PM

Quote :

"I assume there won't be a bad line"

Not unless you're buying Mad Dog or bullets.

7/20/2007 4:45:14 PM

Just got back from Barnes and Noble in Cary on Walnut Street.

They started handing out wrist bands at 4PM. I was there at 3:30 and the line was already 1/4 around the outside of the building.. When I left, the line was all the way around the building...
Here are pictures...
WRAL was there and Ken Smith (anchor)
You can see the line i was in at the front of the building..
You can see the line on the side of the building facing walnut street as I leave...

7/20/2007 4:58:48 PM

Ken was dressed as a wizard for the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix premiere too

Thanks, Ill probably end up hitting up Glenwood or Brier Creek...New Bern is just way out of the way, and ghetto would probably be a good word to describe it indeed, and the way some of these trashier Walmarts are, I could see the covers being ripped off half the books by time I got there.

7/20/2007 5:33:25 PM