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J.K. Rowling helps out Armenia
Guys (and girls), I don’t know if you all like Harry Potter but here’s some interesting news. Read the last paragraph most importantly.
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J.K. Rowling is back.
Harry Potter's adventures ended in 2007 with Deathly Hallows, the seventh book in the blockbuster series, but The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a book of five fairy tales written and illustrated by Rowling, goes on sale Thursday. First printing: 3.5 million copies. (Hallows' first printing was 12 million.)
Like the Potter books, review copies aren't available to critics, and the contents haven't been leaked on the Internet.
But Rowling's star power and healthy sales of young-adult books, including Stephenie Meyer's immensely popular Twilight series, are strong indicators that Beedle will be a best seller.
And then there's the fact that Beedle has a direct link to the boy wizard's adventures: Beedle is the book that Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore bequeaths to Harry's friend Hermione Granger in Deathly Hallows.
Advance sales of the $12.99 edition, which retailers including Borders, Barnes & Noble and Amazon are offering at a deep discount, are brisk on the three booksellers' websites.
Amazon also is publishing 100,000 copies of a $100 collector's edition.
Amazon's Daphne Durham is not ready to predict that Beedle will be the biggest book of the holiday season, but she expects sales to be strong.
The stories in Beedle hold clues that help Harry destroy his mortal enemy Lord Voldemort. They are described as fables that wizard parents tell their children.
Only one Beedle story — "The Tale of the Three Brothers" —is recounted in Deathly Hallows. It and the other four are in Rowling's new book: "The Fountain of Fair Fortune," "The Warlock's Hairy Heart," "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot" and "Rabbitty Babbitty and Her Cackling Stump."
"They feel like folk tales or fairy tales that have been around forever," says Arthur Levine of Scholastic, Rowling's U.S. publisher. "They're as good as any Grimm tale that you might have read in your own childhood. But that's just Rowling's incredible skill."
Last year Rowling produced seven illustrated, hand-written copies of Beedle. She gave six to close friends and one to The Children's High Level Group (CHLG), a charity she helped found in 2005. Amazon bought it at auction for $4 million.
CHLG, needing more money for its work, is publishing Beedle in collaboration with Scholastic, Bloomsbury, Rowling's U.K. publisher, and Amazon. The book will be published in 38 languages.
Net proceeds will help institutionalized children in European countries including Romania, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Moldova and Armenia.
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I love the HP books and I’m glad J.K. Rowling is helping us out.
_______________________________________________
J.K. Rowling is back.
Harry Potter's adventures ended in 2007 with Deathly Hallows, the seventh book in the blockbuster series, but The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a book of five fairy tales written and illustrated by Rowling, goes on sale Thursday. First printing: 3.5 million copies. (Hallows' first printing was 12 million.)
Like the Potter books, review copies aren't available to critics, and the contents haven't been leaked on the Internet.
But Rowling's star power and healthy sales of young-adult books, including Stephenie Meyer's immensely popular Twilight series, are strong indicators that Beedle will be a best seller.
And then there's the fact that Beedle has a direct link to the boy wizard's adventures: Beedle is the book that Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore bequeaths to Harry's friend Hermione Granger in Deathly Hallows.
Advance sales of the $12.99 edition, which retailers including Borders, Barnes & Noble and Amazon are offering at a deep discount, are brisk on the three booksellers' websites.
Amazon also is publishing 100,000 copies of a $100 collector's edition.
Amazon's Daphne Durham is not ready to predict that Beedle will be the biggest book of the holiday season, but she expects sales to be strong.
The stories in Beedle hold clues that help Harry destroy his mortal enemy Lord Voldemort. They are described as fables that wizard parents tell their children.
Only one Beedle story — "The Tale of the Three Brothers" —is recounted in Deathly Hallows. It and the other four are in Rowling's new book: "The Fountain of Fair Fortune," "The Warlock's Hairy Heart," "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot" and "Rabbitty Babbitty and Her Cackling Stump."
"They feel like folk tales or fairy tales that have been around forever," says Arthur Levine of Scholastic, Rowling's U.S. publisher. "They're as good as any Grimm tale that you might have read in your own childhood. But that's just Rowling's incredible skill."
Last year Rowling produced seven illustrated, hand-written copies of Beedle. She gave six to close friends and one to The Children's High Level Group (CHLG), a charity she helped found in 2005. Amazon bought it at auction for $4 million.
CHLG, needing more money for its work, is publishing Beedle in collaboration with Scholastic, Bloomsbury, Rowling's U.K. publisher, and Amazon. The book will be published in 38 languages.
Net proceeds will help institutionalized children in European countries including Romania, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Moldova and Armenia.
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I love the HP books and I’m glad J.K. Rowling is helping us out.
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