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When the sixth Potter book was released J.K. Rowling did not permit any of the books to be published in electronic form, not even during the peak of the e-book craze a few years ago. Neil Blair, a lawyer with Rowling's literary agency, would only say that "this has not been an area that we have sought to license" and did not comment directly on whether pirated e-books, a common phenomena for Potter titles, were hurting sales.

And as the seventh, and most probably the last, Potter book is being sold there seems to be no sign of any legal electronic version coming out. So for those who love to read there books on there computers will have to depend on pirated books to enjoy Potter. Many unauthorized version of HP 7 were released on BitTorrent before the original release and soon after the release of the book officially many Potter fans were found to buy the book from book stores but 'NOT' read it. Instead, they went to the next scanning device and started running their OCR software on little Potter.

And in a recent breakthrough in Bangalore (India) police has seized hundreds of pirated covers of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, a city police official said on Monday.

With all this in the run I am afraid if J.K.Rowling's decision to not let official Potter eBooks to be sold will actually somehow help the Potter piracy. Still, once again the Potter fans should be rest assured that they will have to rely on pirated eBooks of Potter if they want to read the book in there computers. No legal eBook for you Harry!

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