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I just got the email to pre-order today.
Regular price? $45 CAD :eek:
I can buy it for $23, including my discount card but that’s insane.
Hardcovers usually average here at about $30-35, and I usually pre-order online because it’s cheaper than in store (especially with the coupons I get from time to time, plus the discount card) but I can’t imagine paying $45 for it!
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The Amazon email ad for preorder is $18 and change.
[QUOTE=Count Blucher]
Something to ask to be pre-ordered on my birthday so I can read it on vacation.
I really feel bad for the people who’ll be stuck in line outside, as I know some punks (trying to get on ‘youtube’) will try to drive by and yell out parts of the ending.
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Well, this can’t happen as long as the book isn’t leaked early. There’s going to be a worldwide synchronized release, so the idiots trying to spoil the book won’t know any spoilers.
[QUOTE=Doug Bowe]
The Amazon email ad for preorder is $18 and change.
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American or Canadian though?
Either way I’m paying about the same, and I currently have a $5 off coupon for Indigo, and since I’m preordering about 3, maybe 4, books for my summer reading I won’t have to pay for shipping.
I never pay full price for hardcovers, especially since I prefer paperback and usual just play patient.. but $45? Yikes!
Heh. I’ve got your spoiler, right here:[spoiler]The final Horcrux is a sled.
See, it’s easier when you make up your own spoilers.[/spoiler]
Yay! I did the midnight thing for the last three books (Goblet, Phoenix, and Prince) and I am equally excited and dreading the crowds for the last book.
For Goblet, it was invitation only and there were probably 40 people roaming around B&N for three hours playing trivia, dressing up, exc
Phoenix was absolutely NUTS. 600+ people in a mid-to-large sized B&N, and I only know that number because I was number 105, and they were on number 550 and still handing out number cards when I was buying my book.
Prince… well… the line was out the doors by 9pm. I didn’t even get the book till almost 3am. NO idea how many people were there, and kinda scared to know.
Dangit! Now Im all excited again!
I did the midnight thing last time around. Wound up spending two hours on line just so I could go home and go to bed. The next morning I had to run to Wal-Mart, and they had a bazillion copies selling for even cheaper than I had paid at 2am.
I think I’ll skip the midnight purchase this time around.
$45 is indeed ridiculous.
That said, I would probably pay $85.
And yes. I too have promised myself I’ll go to one of those midnight, dorkouts. Last book, I was on tour and Potter had been delivered to my house and I spent a week and a half manically avoiding people in other states as they whispered about the plot. It was horrible.
At the moment, HP is the #1 selling book on the US,UK and CA versions of Amazon.
I had half-planned to do the midnight buying party thing this time (for the first time), but reading this thread changed my mind. I can’t think that the experience would outweigh the irritation of standing in line for hours.
So I’ll do what I did last time – get up at 6:30 and head for my local WalMart and buy the book first thing (along with donuts: my local WalMart has lovely donuts); then come home and read, read, read.
I’m excited! I thought for sure it’d be at least 2008 before we saw that last book. I’ll be at Wal-Mart at midnight, standing in line.
Unless I’m at work. In which case I’ll send one of my crew to Wal-Mart to stand in line, like I did with OotP.
It’s good to be the supervisor.
[QUOTE=DurbBook]
The national laydown of *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows * will be my first experience as a bookseller with the HP phenomenon. I can’t wait!
Support your independent bookstores!
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I worked the last one at B&N and it was a blast. I peered into a crystal ball and told fortunes to an endless line of pint sized skeptics. I took their parents money and then stayed up till 4 a.m. cleaning up after 'em all. Loved it (mostly).
This year I’m staying home with my feet up, though.
[QUOTE=Rysto]
Well, this can’t happen as long as the book isn’t leaked early. There’s going to be a worldwide synchronized release, so the idiots trying to spoil the book won’t know any spoilers.
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Well now… an acquaintance of mine happens to be six-times winner of the World Speed Reading Championship. At the midnight launch of the last Potter book, she organised a competition between some of the students she’d been teaching at a community college. The winner finished the book in one hour, fifty-six minutes.
Now, obviously nobody involved with this event was an idiot, but if they’d been feeling just a little silly, they would have had plenty of time to drop by a bookshop on the way home and let drop the occasional salient plot point.
Hmm… I may just ask my friend what she’s up to in July…
[QUOTE=mobo85]
Well, it’ll be on sale in the U.S. on the same day too, according to Scholastic. Unless, of course, you prefer the English English to the American English, which I see no problem with.
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They only Americanized the first book. The rest of them are published in the US exactly the same as they are in Britain, I think. My own copies are in another hemisphere, so I can’t double check.
[QUOTE=Kyla]
They only Americanized the first book. The rest of them are published in the US exactly the same as they are in Britain, I think. My own copies are in another hemisphere, so I can’t double check.
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What exactly does “Americanized” mean? Does it replace all the British slang with something more recognisable, or does it just change spellings?
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold]
What exactly does “Americanized” mean? Does it replace all the British slang with something more recognisable, or does it just change spellings?
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Just the spellings, I think. Well, and the damned title of the book, of course. Personally, I’m not a fan of this and wish publishers wouldn’t do this, but apparently I’m in the minority. FWIW, I bought a book written by an American when I was in London and it was “Anglicized”.
It was more than spelling. Words were altered for the American market. “Sneakers” for “Trainers” and suchlike.
And here’s a site that does a side-by-side, for your amusement.
[QUOTE=Giles]
I think you can get it about 11 hours earlier in New Zealand, or 9 hours earlier in Australia, assuming that it’s published on the same day in those countries.
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It’s a different date, but the exact same time. The last three books have all been released at the civilised hour of 11am, which means I can have a little sleep in and then pick up the book and spend the day on the couch, reading. Can’t wait!
I came in here to say YAY and chime in with the Support Your Local Independent Bookseller.
I should mark an X on my calendar of DO NOT DISTURB MAMA for this date and maybe a couple of days after.
I wish I had a timeturner…