User blog comment:Mrcharlton/YJS books may not be canon/@comment-71.114.230.148-20110527061300/@comment-4898132-20110527071233

''If one wants to take the new "Price of Freedom" novel into account, the novel does explain how Jack, a son of a pirate, could have called Shipwreck Island his home in his early years while being a respectable merchantman later in life. (Going strictly by the films, there was never anything to indicate that Jack had been anything but a pirate. The burning of the Wench was background info given by the screenwriters.)''
 * There has been no dialogue in the films that show that Jack was always a pirate. There was a deleted scene in AWE which kinda assists in revealing that Jack once worked with the company. As said in this dialogue:

Beckett: Your good deed cost me, Jack.

Jack: ''And you have spared me any possibility of ending up as anything other than what I am. And for that, I truly thank you''

Hence our belief that Jack was not always a pirate in his life.

''However, the book does contradict the series on a number of points, however. Jack encounters Davy Jones for the first time in his twenties in the book, for example. The author has indicated that she was aware of the books but did not read them.''
 * Could you please present dialogue from the book to support this theory?

''Still, there is space enough in these waters for every story. The book Pirates of the Caribbean: The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company, written in-universe by an EITC agent, has a section on Jack's adventures as a lad. In it, the East India agent notes that Jack's adventures have been recorded by Rob Kidd. So the books we have may actually be in-universe books written by one Rob Kidd about Jack Sparrow's early life. Any contradictions between this series and the films or new novel can be explained as errors or deliberate exaggerations on the part of Jack or his chronicler.''
 * I don't see how that's wrong. The Harry Potter universe has their own in-universe character named "JK Rowling".