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

[sciffy-circo.livejournal.com]

Oh, heck yeah, I was at the last one. The festival was supposed to start at 7PM, and by 4PM, the streets were blocked off, and getting pretty crowded. By 1:45Am, a few parents were hnolding sleepy children in their arms and saying they hoped to get their books soon, because the village started putting parking tickets on cars at 2AM.

Yep, Oak Park is my home town. :)

It's also why I hate living in Naperville so damned much. :(

[youngcurmudgeon.livejournal.com]

(Oooh, that's a tough drive! Been to Naperville for speech team tourneys.) I'm from Oak Park and will be either at the festivities or working at the movie theater (which is allegedly doing a marathon of all three films in their air-conditioned glory). Or in Pittsburgh seeing Tamora Pierce. You know, priorities. :-)