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Harry Potter transcript claim doesn’t convince | The Register
The posted message claims to expose the names and ways in which two of the characters die, something that has been the subject of much speculation by fans of author J.K.Rowling and the boy wizard. For those not allergic to potential spoilers (of dubious provenance) the post can be found here.
One technical point I haven’t seen made is that most publishers work with manuscripts in separate chapter files for 99% of the production process. The full manuscript would be quite a lengthy file. I would be quite surprised for an electronic copy of the full manuscript to be sitting around in Bloomsbury. Surely chapter files would be much more widely dispersed within the organization. That fact that the hacker didn’t refer to finding and copying 30 or so separate PDF files casts doubt in my mind on whether they were really inside the Bloomsbury network as he claims.
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book arbitrage | Performancing.com
Every month, Performancing is going to run an experiment that we hope will accomplish three things. First, and foremost, it should be fun! Second, we’ll all learn a new thing or two about marketing strategy. Third, by running a collective experiment, we can share seo and marketing wisdom with each other.
This month, the experiment is going to be Book Arbitrage. Let’s have fun with it!
The book we are going to try to do search arbitrage on is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Basically, this is the art of creating a useful website about a popular book (almost like a squidoo lens) and gaining Amazon affiliate sales.
If you read Performancing closely, you might have seen my suggestion that the Photopress theme is the perfect tool for book arbitrage because it lets you put up a nice and big picture of the book’s cover art….plus it’s clean and professional looking.
To get started, I’ve gone ahead and setup a bare-bones book arbitrage site for the 7th and final Harry Potter book that releases on July 21, 2007. As a community, we have about one month to put our plan into place and execute it. Profits will be split evenly between Performancing and everyone who either offers a suggestion in this comment thread or links to the Deathly Hallows site.
What I want us to do collectively is make suggestions for how to make this a killer landing page for HP 7. So fire away in the comment section. What should we add to this barebones template to make it kick some Google ass?
performancing, harry potter, deathly hallows, book arbitrage
FOXNews.com – Man Survives Bobcat Attack by Choking Animal to Death – Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — A 62-year-old Florida man depended on his instincts when a bobcat attacked him, and it paid off — he survived, the bobcat didn’t.
The kicker: it attacked because it had rabies.
wfzimmerman’s review: “A well-intentioned workbook with good ideas, but it didn’t do me any good until I got into a well-managed program with professional counselors.”
Thomas Nelson (1992), Paperback, 320 pages
Harry Potter transcript claim doesn’t convince | The Register
The posted message claims to expose the names and ways in which two of the characters die, something that has been the subject of much speculation by fans of author J.K.Rowling and the boy wizard. For those not allergic to potential spoilers (of dubious provenance) the post can be found here.
Not very credible. Remember that with HBP, a “dumbledore is dead” rumor came out about a month before publication — but that was based on people who had actually seen printed copies of the book.
Technorati Tags: Harry Potter, Hermione, Deathly Hallows
wfzimmerman’s review: “I read this for a project I did while at ISciences.”
Favre (2004), Broché, 224 pages
tags: first edition
wfzimmerman’s review: “A tattered favorite from childhood.”
NY: Holt Rinehart, 1961 14th prtg. (1961), Paperback
tags: childhood
wfzimmerman’s review: “A tattered favorite from childhood. I’ve tried to get Kelsey and Parker to adopt this but without success.”
Fawcett (1960), Mass Market Paperback
tags: seventh printing, 1969; childhood
wfzimmerman’s review: “Very entertaining book about the life of an international basketball vagabond. Let’s hope there’s more to come from this fellow.”
Villard (2007), Hardcover, 336 pages
tags: basketball, international basketball, sports, first edition
wfzimmerman’s review: “The title is wildly overbroad — the subtitle is far more accurate, and would be even better if you added the words "A Subordinate’s View of" to the beginning. The book reads like an extended meditation on how Clark failed to understand his limited role as theater C in C in a country with civilian control of the military.”
PublicAffairs (2001), Hardcover, 304 pages
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