Author J.K. Rowling became an international literary sensation when the first three installments of her Harry Potter children's book series took over the top three slots of The New York Times best-seller list.
"Salon reports that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has been leaked four days before it hits bookstores. It turns out that someone with access to the American edition of the book has taken a photograph of every one of the pages and made them available via bittorrent. Publishers may well be quaking in their boots, but in some places the quality is barely legible.
L. Spector, R. Moore, and A. Robinson. 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Late Breaking Papers, page 384--389. San Francisco, California, USA, (9-11 July 2001)