How do you feel about JK’s new book?
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- How do you feel about JK’s new book?
- No Potter magic for booksellers
- HLI Head Says Harry Potter Indoctrinates Young Souls in Language and…
- Harry Potter 7 to mark biggest distribution event
How do you feel about JK’s new book?
BBC News – Nov 6, 2007
She’s decided not to publish the book because she wanted it to be a special present for a few people who helped her while she was writing the Potter novels. So she’s given the first six away to people close to her. The seventh is being auctioned for charity. How do you feel about not being able to read this latest piece of Potter? Maybe you’d LOVE to know what’s in the book? Perhaps you don’t care? Or are you just pleased that she’s helping a charity?Email us and let us know…
And I am glad she is doing something worthwhile with the seventh and final book. Katie, 12, Dargaville, New Zealand”My heart sank when I found out it was for auction. I am a massive Harry Potter fan and to think I won’t be able to read one of JK’s books upsets me, but I hope whoever gets it enjoys it. Poppy, 12, Kent, England”I really want to read this book and think it’s unfair not to publish it as it sounds like it would be quite interesting. Livi, 12, Ripon, England”I’m really sad that I can’t read the book because I’m a fan of JK Rowling. But on the other hand I’m quite happy for the people who can read it and they should be proud of themselves. Without them, I wouldn’t even know the name Harry Potter.
No Potter magic for booksellers
news24.com – Nov 6, 2007
" Magical inventory Scholastic Corp – the US publisher of the Potter series – is planning to release a record-breaking 12 million copies of Deathly Hallows, so retailers expect no problems getting inventory. "We placed our orders for them and they've guaranteed us we'll get them," said Dara La Porte, the children's book manager at Politics and Prose, an independent bookstore in Washington, DC. "The last couple of Harry Potter titles – we've gotten them within 24 hours of when it released. " Borders has been taking reservations for Deathly Hallows since December, giving the company a solid gauge for what it will need to order from Scholastic, company spokesperson Ann Binkley said. "As we get a little closer to July 21, we'll sit with Scholastic and talk about what our reserves are?We partner very closely with our vendors. "National book club Whether the book has a happy ending for Harry Potter and his wizard friends is still not generally known, but booksellers say the series has been able to create millions of young readers in an era of video games and the internet. "We get to host a party in July for probably 200 kids who are excited about a book.
HLI Head Says Harry Potter Indoctrinates Young Souls in Language and…
Lifesite – Nov 6, 2007
Euteneuer,President, Human Life InternationalFRONT ROYAL, Virginia, November 6, 2007 (hli. org) – Many have asked me my opinion about Harry Potter. There is, among good Catholics, a general unease about the series, but the sense of disquiet is very, very difficult to define. I am at a bit of a disadvantage to comment on any particulars of the books since I have not read any of them or seen the movies, nor do I intend toI have an aversion to adolescent fads and not enough time to spend on questionable materials when there is so much excellent fare for the soul out there. I do, however, feel it is important to offer some guidance on this issue from a third person point of view because some things can be observed about the books without having read them.
Harry Potter 7 to mark biggest distribution event
VietNamNet Bridge – Nov 6, 2007
30am on July 21 by HCM City-based book distributor Fahasa,. Two years ago, Harry Potter 6, The Half-Blood Prince, became the first work of literature to be released in Vietnam simultaneously with the rest of the world.