Thursday, September 22, 2005
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From: Stan <xjkevh@antronomia.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:42:22 +0100
Subject: Re:
"The Historian" (Little, Brown), the debut novel by Elizabeth Kostova, concerns a teenage American girl who stumbles on an old book in her father's library.
The New York buyer said she would return the book; in the Canadian case, a judge ordered purchasers to avoid disclosing the plot if they wouldn't return their copies. According to some reports, they were even told not to read it.
In May, a bookmaker suspended betting on the death of a certain character after suspecting a leak. Rowling has released just three chapter titles -- "Spinners End" (Chapter 2), "Draco's Detour" (Chapter 6) and "Felix Felicis" (Chapter 14) -- and security is extremely tight, with booksellers selli
