Optimistic Retail

[tamaranth]

From a Harry Potter RSS feed: "In four days' time, more than one million people across Britain will pay £16.99 for the latest installment in the Harry Potter series ... "

Where?
I have yet to see a bookseller offering it at full price. Cheapest seems to be Evil-Empire Tesco's (£7.64) ...

Comments

[tanais.livejournal.com]

I've been told that a really really really really really virulent form of herpes has been impreganted into the pages of the latest novel by those "Asylum Seekers" working for Al Quaeda and Saddam Hussein and that western civilization is about to collaspe because no one will do any work until they have read the book and by then all the nukular power stations will have blown up and we will all be dead from radiation poisoning...

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

So no change there, then?

Personally, I intend to read no papers and listen to no radio news this weekend. It's not that I object to the books, but I am sick of the hype.