Which Is The Damn Point, After All

[filkertom]

I love it. I absolutely love it.

As detailed in this AP/Yahoo News story, there is actually going to be less Harry Potter merchandise in the bookstores when people go to get their copies of Half Blood Prince. Why? Because it was overpriced crap, and the stores don't want to sell it.

Harry Potter is about reading, and dreaming, and wonder, and fantasy, and a whole buncha stuff that the marketing people just don't get.

But the fans, and the bookstores, do.

Love it love it love it.





So. We've gone over this a bit before, but it's now within three weeks. Any particular plans for that weekend? Who's going to bookstore parties? Who's holding, or attending, house parties? Any parties at any conventions?

Comments

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

I am signed up for one of the fortypercentoff advance-order copies at my local B&N.
However, I'm going to be in Tulsa at Conestoga that weekend, and won't be in to pick up my copy until Sunday-suppertime. The clerk I talked to said he would put a note on my name in the list to set a copy in the ordinary shelf for ordered-books, but he really couldn't guarantee the store wouldn't go ahead and sell every copy they get in anyway.
There is going to be a Harry Potter party on Ffiday at Conestoga, though, with one of THEIR dealers offering discounted sales (10 or 15 percent) for about an hour past midnght.
Do I take the sure-thing lesser discount or hold my breath and hope the local Barnes really will save me a 40% off copy until Sunday evening?

If they DON'T, and if they then tell me I'll have to pay full price for a copy out of the next batch in, it will get Very Interesting. Sharon is interning at a local TV station: one which has an "on your side" investigative reporter. If it's a slow enough week otherwise, he MIGHT be interested in this...

[ludzu-alus.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, it will go directly to bestseller and (as every B&N is the same), I can tell you that even if you don't get the 40%, it will definitely be 30% off. Still, cheaper than the 10-15% at the Con. I've heard conflicting reports about the discount - but at last comment, I heard that the 40% will be for that night and possibly the next two days (to allow anyone not able or wanting to show up for the party to get their books at the 40% off price). Don't take that as gospel, though. We all know how corporations are - changing their minds a dozen times and not telling the rest of us bookpeons what is really going down til a day after we needed to know. *grin*