‘Tales Of Beedle The Bard’ To Be Published For Muggles
Today is Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s birthday and in celebration it has been announced that her previously unavailable handwritten tome of short fairytales (written by Rowling after she penned the 7th and final Harry Potter book) will be published for sale to regular folk like us. The original handwritten copies of the book were given away to personal friends of Rowling and the 7th was sold at auction for almost $4 million bucks to Amazon.com … and now, the book will be published in a special edition version (for $100) and a standard paperback edition (for $8) — the Collector’s Edition will be sold exclusively on Amazon.com:
Wizard news, Harry Potter fans: A book of fairy tales written and illustrated by J.K. Rowling is to be published for charity. A British charity said Thursday it hopes to raise $8 million through sales of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard.” Rowling co-founded The Children’s High Level Group charity, which supports institutionalized children. She has signed over her royalties. The book is a collection of five wizarding tales referred to in Rowling’s Potter saga. It was initially produced in an edition of seven handwritten copies. Six were given away by Rowling as gifts, and one was bought by retailer Amazon at an auction in December for almost $4 million. Rowling said the new edition would include her illustrations and introduction, the stories themselves and commentaries ostensibly by Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, “which appear by generous permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters’ Archive.” The book will be published Dec. 4 by Bloomsbury in Britain and Scholastic in the United States. Amazon also plans a leather-bound collectors’ edition priced at $100 … She has described “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” as a distillation of the themes found in the Harry Potter books, calling it her goodbye to a world she lived in for 17 years.
Hot damn! This is great news! I was hoping that Tales of Beedle the Bard would be published one day despite the fact that we were told that the book would never be published (henceforth making the sole auctioned copy of the book so valuable). It makes sense that Amazon will be the exclusive seller of the Collector’s Edition since they ponied up the $4 million bucks for the auctioned copy of the book. I already placed my pre-order for both the Collector’s Edition (which you can pre-order HERE) and the standard edition (which you can pre-order HERE). This is absolutely amazing news for Potter fans. It may be JK’s birthday but I feel like we all have cause to celebrate today :)
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:09 am
I’m glad that we’ll finally be able to read the stories and money from our purchase will be going to a good cause. This is awesome news.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:10 am
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:14 am
please don’t use “comment bitches” for us to comment on…
July 31st, 2008 at 11:37 am
Javajunko- Why not?? Didn’t seem to stop you… Leave Trent alone… If you don’t like what he says/ does… don’t read HIS blog…
July 31st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Woot woot! Just bought one copy of each and they’re both MINE! Well, at least until the kids are old enough to pilfer them ;)
July 31st, 2008 at 1:11 pm
[...] Thursday it hopes to raise $8 million through sales of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard. … credit : [...]
July 31st, 2008 at 1:55 pm
i agree w/ nickki about javajunko.
comment bitches is just fine w/ me!!!!
love trent & love this blog! =]
& i cannot WAIT for this book to come out!!!!! =]
July 31st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Thank You! I just placed my order for the Collector’s Edition (I figure I’ll buy the Standard Edition in-store).
July 31st, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Yay! This is amazing news. I freaked out like the Potterhead I am when I read the story. Gosh, don’t you just love Jo? She’s giving us a gift on her birthday! She’s quite amazing, she is.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
i’m really excited! i stumbed across this by accident trying to look for something on amazon yesterday and pre-ordered it almost immediately. just the standard addition for me though, i don’t have $100 to blow on a book.