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Potter publisher pleads for no plot publicity.(Levy Home Entertainment and Scholastic Corp.)(Brief article)
Business Insurance, July, 2007
The fate of Harry Potter and his archenemy Voldemort may now be well known by all speed-readers, but last week the publisher of the seventh and final installment of the Harry Potter series was pleading with fans who might have received an early copy of the book to keep it literally under wraps.
Copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' surfaced on the Internet last week after Melrose Park, Ill.-based distributor Levy Home Entertainment and its customer Itasca, Ill.-based retailer DeepDiscount.com allegedly shipped the book up to a week before the permitted July 21 release date. In a suit reportedly filed in Cook County Circuit Court, New York-based Scholastic said that retailers and distributors signed special contracts embargoing the book until July...
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