García Márquez Vs. The Pirates

It’s taken Gabriel García Márquez a decade to get his new book ready for publication. Now the publication date is being moved up by the book’s publishers to combat pirates who are getting their own version out. “In a full-page advertisement in Colombia’s leading newspaper on Saturday, the publishers announced the early launch and denounced the pirated versions being peddled on the streets of the Colombian capital as ‘mutilating the content of the work’.”