Wednesday, December 9, 2009

The Girl Who...

...tempted Americans to violate copyright law.

1 comment:

Tulkinghorn said...

Amazon UK, it may be recalled, put a limit on the number of copies sold to a single purchaser on one of the Harry Potter books to avoid this problem.

Twenty dollars -- the rough difference between the US street price of the book and its cost through Amazon UK -- seems a lot of money to pay for being too lame to buy something yourself.

And how familiar it is to read that guy from Knopf saying nothing firmly....