CHINESE LANGUAGE HARRY POTTER LAUNCHED AMIDST TOUGH ANTI-PIRACY SECURITY
November 1st, 2007
BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing
CHINESE Harry Potter fans face long queues at the counters at the Xidan Book Building - Beijing's largest book store by floorspace - before they can thumb the green-tinted pages of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, priced at RMB66 (GBPounds 4.25). Unusually for Chinese bookstores, where readers like to linger over new books, only dummies of the Chinese-language Deathly Hallows (which was launched in China on October 29) are stacked and taped in pyramids in the store aisles, framed by plastic arches bearing the title's name in ...
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