We don’t and we won’t. For starters, it cost $4million dollars and that would empty the book budget for many years to come. J.K. Rowling only made seven copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The leather bound books are covered in semi precious stones. Six of the books will be given to those closely involved in the Harry Potter book series. The seventh was auctioned off today in Thursday, December 13, 2007
Don’t Ask Us if We Have J.K. Rowling’s Latest Book
We don’t and we won’t. For starters, it cost $4million dollars and that would empty the book budget for many years to come. J.K. Rowling only made seven copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The leather bound books are covered in semi precious stones. Six of the books will be given to those closely involved in the Harry Potter book series. The seventh was auctioned off today in 
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Good News-We can see parts of it after all :)
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We're incredibly excited to announce that Amazon has purchased J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard at an auction held by Sotheby’s in London. The book of five wizarding fairy tales, referenced in the last book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is one of only seven handmade copies in existence. The purchase price was £1,950,000, and Ms. Rowling is donating the proceeds to The Children's Voice campaign, a charity she co-founded to help improve the lives of institutionalized children across Europe.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard is extensively illustrated and handwritten by the bard herself--all 157 pages of it. It's bound in brown Moroccan leather and embellished with five hand-chased hallmarked sterling silver ornaments and mounted moonstones.
Enjoy these first images of the book. We'll be adding reviews of each of the fairy tales and more photos of this beautiful object as we can get them up in the coming hours (if you want to be sure of a link that will permanently work, use www.amazon.com/beedlebard). For the curious of mind, Amazon editors are now taking questions about the tales from all comers on our discussion boards (located further down this page).
Whoa!
ReplyDeleteActually, I read in the Boston Globe that amazon plans to tour the physical book around to schools and libraries nationwide. Wouldn't it be great if Dover could be on their touring schedule!!
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