$34.99 seems kind of pricey but I probably will still pick it up. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" Due Out on July 21 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the last of seven installments of the boy wizard's adventures, will be published July 21, author J.K. Rowling said Thursday. Rowling announced the publication date on her Web site. Bloomsbury, her British publisher, said it would publish a children's hardback edition, an adult hardback, a special gift edition and an audio book on the same day. Scholastic Children's Books, the U.S. publisher, said it would offer a hardback edition at a suggested retail price of $34.99, a deluxe edition at $65.00 and a reinforced library edition at $39.99. Bloomsbury noted that this year is the 10th anniversary of the publication of the first "Harry Potter" book in the phenomenally successful series. The "Potter" books have sold 325 million copies worldwide and been translated into 64 languages, Bloomsbury said. The last book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," sold 2,009,574 copies in Britain on the first day of its release, Bloomsbury said. The Potter franchise is so important to the company's earnings that it announced the publication to the London Stock Exchange. Bloomsbury shares were up 2.2 percent to $4.40 after the announcement.
Well, 34.99 is the MSRP. Barnes and Noble and Amazon will probably have it for 17.99 or something like that.
I read a ton and I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I love these books. Some of my absolute favorite books ever. If you haven't read them, don't knock it.
I never said it was bad or the book sucks. I only said "You grown men read this?". It's just a shock to me that these books, written in LARGE FONTs, for kids, are appealing to adults. If you like them, cool... I never said nothing about Harry Potter readers... I only said I was at you dudes reading them, is all. My argument, I guess, is that these books are geared towards children, that's all. I am not "knocking" it.
