Harry Potter falls prey to Chinese pirates
It’s missing some paragraphs and gets a couple of facts wrong, but the wizards of China’s thriving product piracy industry have worked their magic again and produced a rush translation of the latest Harry Potter book.
An unauthorised Chinese version of “Harry Potter: The Half Blood Prince” was on sale in Beijing today just two weeks after the book appeared in English and well ahead of the planned October launch of the Chinese-language edition.
