Harry Potter one week in
July 29, 2007 | Filed in: Philosophy, life

One week in, and my wife still has not finished the deathly hollows yet. The buzz over the price war have subsided and I believe the bookstores have moved on. Popular is giving a 25% discount for popular card members and a free ‘t’shirt (while stock last), general public gets a 20% discount. There were some bloggers who screams the drop of quality read or the death of retail bookstores with this invasion of hypermarts into the book domain. You can read the responses on this site. I believe that those who stood by the sides of the bookstores are truly an elitist and probably have not bought anything pirated nor downloaded anything illegal before. With all these hoo haa, many fail to identify the real ‘bad guys’ here. Yea, sure, the hypermarts were the easy targets, but failed to realize that they did everything within the law and it was mere a business strategy. Many forgot about the pirates. Read about them here and here. Why are there no one crying ‘death to the pirates’? Especially those called for the death of the hypermarts. The ones that really going kill the book industry will be the pirates, in the sea and online. The ones that degrades reading quality are the pirates. And yet, no one seams to care…

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