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| Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
| Paying for Potter |
Bloomsbury have cancelled Asda's Harry Potter order over an unpaid bill. Or maybe not - in a spat rather reminiscent of the Google-eBay row, apparently the Walmart-owned supermarket have criticised Bloomsbury's £17.99 cover price as "holding children to ransom". Asda have promised to have the lowest price for the book, and to have enough stock "to prove that this is not a just a gimmick".
For myself, I paid €28,00, which works out at *more* than the cover price. I'd like to make that into a political statement about supporting smaller booksellers - and to some extent it is. I buy more books because I buy from Amazon too, but over an economic farce like the release of a new HP, I'll happily pay more to an independent retailer. But more importantly, I'll have the book in my grubby little hands at midnight.Labels: Harry Potter |
| posted @ 11:00 |
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