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Home » August 2007
Thursday, 02 August 2007
HP

All this year July has passed in an atmosphere of a mass psychosis under "Harry Potter's" name. Millions sold books and tickets at cinema, crowds of  fans in lines and so on. Meanwhile, on July, 21st last book of a series was  launched only in English. And here the most interesting has begun. My friend  from Russia has told how they translated the book. Half a year back in the  Internet some commands of translators were organized - naturally, they were  not officially registered and not advertising their existence. And as soon  as the book has gone on sale - work has begun to hum. As a result in three  hours(!) after the book’s launching in the network there was a translation  of first five chapters and for especially impatient people - retelling of  the whole book. In two days it was already possible to read the whole of  book - the truth saying, in the "crude" not edited variant, and in a week  there were thousand links to a full variant of translation. Actually, it is  no wonder if to consider, that the official publication of the book in  Russian is expected not earlier, than in three months …

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