Mark
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02:03:46 am on February 19, 2008 | # |
A while ago, Amazon bought J.K. Rowling’s ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’ which is an essential part of the seventh and final book of Harry Potter. They paid £1,950,000 (which is so many money for 157 pages that I won’t even convert it to other currencies - it still sounds like a reasonable amount in Pounds).
The whole point of the book is that it is handmade in only seven copies (!) and bound in brown Moroccan leather and embellished with five hand-chased hallmarked sterling silver ornaments and mounted moonstones along with lots and lots of hand-drawn illustrations from Ms. Rowling herself. Plus all of the proceeds from the auctions goes into charity, so it’s really okay for a company that has made so much money from the books to give something back.
Anyway, Amazon have now put up a site that tells what the stories are about and what some of the illustrations look like, and you can find them here: amazon.com/beedlebard. I haven’t read them yet; I want to read the stories as a whole, when I can, but it’s a nice gesture by Amazon none the less.
