They demand to a newspaper by the advance payment of Harry Potter

Rowling demands USS 100 million

NEW YORK. - The writer Joanne K. Rowling, creator of the popular apprentice of magician Harry Potter, presented/displayed a demand percent million dollars against the newspaper Daily advance News to have details of the fifth book of the successful publishing series, that will be sent tomorrow in Great Britain and the United States, in the middle of a strong expectation.

The demand power the interest that has waked up the appearance of the new chapter of the series, that before its publication already broke records when registering by Internet requested by a million unit anywhere in the world.

The newspaper explained that it bought a unit of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Fénix" in the premises of eatable natural that, by error, had begun to sell the book Wednesday, although it had to hope until Saturday to offer it to the public.

The demand, prepared by lawyers of Rowling and the publishing house Scholastic Incorporated, is based on which the newspaper violated the rights of intellectual property of the author and affected the campaign of marketing of Scholastic, that cost three million dollars.

The distribution of the villa gives of the adventures of the wizard apprentice was surrounded by strict safety measures. Nevertheless, the robbery of a truck with 7680 units of the last book could not be avoided in London, that surely will enter the black market.

In a declaration referred to the advance payment of the Daily News, the Scholastic publishing house said that it trusted that "this unfortunate situation does not ruin the surprise of million children of all the country who are been waiting for anxiously the book".

Scholastic provided to AP a copy of the demand and explained that Wednesday in the evening in a court of Manhattan was presented/displayed.

"We will defend our actions energetically and we are convinced that we did not commit any infraction, neither from the journalistic legal one nor point of view", said the spokesman of the Daily News, Ken Frydman.

The newspaper, that is published in New York, published Wednesday in its cover the Exclusive title ": one first watched to last Harry Potter "and in page 5 included a titled article: "Abracadabra: we have Harry ", with a box in which he was transformed intrigues it of the fifth volume.

There one occurred to know the fanatics Harry Potter who the death of one of the main personages announced by Rowling is not the one of neither better friends of the small magician, Ron and Hermione.

One of the key points of the advertising campaign was the announcement of mouth of the own author of which one of the main personages would die. In London, the bets indicate that it would be Hagrid, the foresters friend of Harry in the School of Hogwarts Magic.

An employee of the newspaper acquired the book in a store of the New York district of Brooklyn, where already they were sold, apparently by error, some units. The article with the advance of the content was published in Internet.

The proprietor of the premises said to the newspaper that did not know that it had to hope until Saturday to sell books. The newspaper did not identify the proprietor nor revealed the name of the commerce.

For million followers of the saga of Harry Potter, whose fourth book left three years ago, it will finish tomorrow. In Great Britain, the stores will open a minute after the midnight to do in front of the avalanche of people that is expected.

While in the United Kingdom they will leave 2.5 million unit on sale, in the United States 8.5 million unit will be distributed.