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The Tales of Beedle the Bard |
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| Written by Diana, on 22-12-2007 04:27 |
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Since I already posted this once, and lost it due to session issues (!!!!) which Joomla! just can't handle, I'll paraphrase:
Amazon.com is listing, on their front page, the book by JK Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard which was mentioned in the final Harry Potter book. From the look of it, you may think you'll get to buy the book. But, after reading reviews of the stories in the book, you find out it's not for sale. Amazon shouldn't post this book on their site WITH REVIEWS unless they plan on offering it for sale. There are lots of discussions about this, the book's auction, and JK Rowling. Here's my take on one of them:
I agree with LL Nawrocki, but I don't agree with some of the other comments. I don't need it thrown in my face that I'll never get to read this very unique book. Having it posted on the the main page of Amazon is misleading. I thought I'd actually get to buy the book. I think she has every right to make SEVEN COPIES or however many it was and auction one off for charity, that's really all you can do when you have more money than the QUEEN. I think she deserves the acclaim, but Amazon doesn't need to rub it in our face by not even offering the book for sale. By mass marketing the book after this auction, the original hand-written (?) books greatly lose value. So if it was mass marketed, I'd be a pretty angry buyer of a VERY PRICEY book, but at the same time, I think it would sell like Harry Potter volume EIGHT would sell. I think Rowling has every right to do what she did, I think Amazon just sort of slipped up in the somewhat false advertising of it.
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