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Amazon is highest bidder for JK Rowling's "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"...

see photo's here.

As much as I love Amazon for all the books I buy from them, it bothers me why they would buy this book when they are not allowed to reproduce it..

yes, its great the money paid for it goes to charity! 

But something about it just doesn't sit right with me, and I'm not sure what it is.  Wouldn't this have made even MORE MONEY FOR CHARITY, if the deal was whoever won it could duplicate it in paperback, with THOSE PROCEEDS ALSO GOING TO CHARITY?? ......... Just a thought mind you.

I've also read something disturbing about Amazon and the self published authors who print on demand.. that if you want it listed and sold at Amazon you would have to use THEIR self publishing and no one else's... again.. this doesn't bode well with me.  I really don't like when freedoms (of choice) are taken away.

I have to say that another such "freedom" being taken away is, as we all know, our televisions.  You HAVE TO go HD or you HAVE TO pay for a special box from cable in order to have any television at all.... this is freedom???  not.

When I'm like this I have to be careful with my reading or it overrides even a good read!... so I'll put the book down tonite..  I guess I've been in better moods huh?.. sigh*  Boy, I'm glad tonight has Dancin' With the Stars!  I sooooo need .. not to think!

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• #2 Comment from xxroxymamaxx 
  4/22/08 9:52 AM | Permalink

  I hate it when freedoms are taken away too.  It bothers me so bad!!  I have 2 tvs that will need the box....ohhhh that just makes me mad.   I'm glad you are still reading though.  I lost my reading urge for like the last 2 years or something.  I even got a book from the library last month and only read half of it.  It was good too, I just lost interest in reading for some reason.  I'll get it back someday.  I was late returning the book.  lol  Love ya Pat!!  Shelly
• #1 Comment from slapinions 
  4/21/08 5:57 PM | Permalink

  I warn ya, my spelling stinks today.
  
  I think the TV upgrade is all well and good, and a kick in the rear to the industry to catch up with expectations. Likewise Amazon has a right to restrict its competitiors from using it's own site against itself, even if it stinks. But . .
  
  I can't  recall if your'e a Rowling fan, but honest and true I find her (not the books) insufferable (sp?). This gimmick is only the latest (and you're right, paperback rights would have = much more $ for charity).
  
  There's this, then the standard 'oh, were it not for Harry I'd have killed myself' story that has managed to miraculously create a *new* AP headline each-and-every-time-ad-nasueum she tells it.
  
  There's the Dummbledore is gay thing - why not put it in the book then? Did she just think of it on the spot or did she not have the courage to include it?
  
  And the lawsuit against the fan with the encyclopedia. . what a crock. But of course, it's not about the $.
  
  I know I sound bitter, but she gets under my skin.  It's not about the level of fame either - Stephen King's done just fine with it, imho - but about her actions.
  
  Dan
  
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