Why Steal It? Try Wal-Mart.

In yet another bizarre story of Potter-mania, a Montreal woman somehow managed to purchase a copy of the new Harry Potter book from her local Wal-Mart this week. The book is scheduled to go on sale Saturday. Since the woman was only planning to read the book, and not, y’know, post it on a web site or something, the publisher just laughed it off as an innocent mistake. HA! No, of course they didn’t. In fact, Raincoast Books, the Canadian distributor of the Potter series, offered the woman $5000 if she would return the illicit copy. She said that Raincoast could have her copy back once she’s finished reading it.