Book & Information 28 Aug 2007 06:55 am
Harry Potter and the Crazy rules.
Harry Potter, ah the wonder of it all. Needless to say, I loved it. I think that Harry Potter is a fabulous series of books, and that some people might want to relax a little bit and just remember, it is a KIDS BOOK SERIES. It has made kids read like there is no tomorrow, made ADULTS read like there is no tomorrow and created an international sensation, about a sad little orphan boy with great friends.
The rules about Harry for purchase as a bookstore were pretty intense. We ordered through Scholastic, and part of our contract, besides not selling the book ahead of time (duh…) was that we could not share how many we ordered or how many we sold each day. Very interesting. Also, something that I liked was that you could not order more of book 7 than you had SOLD of book 6. This would be books ordered minus books returned after the hubbub wore off for the Half-Blood Prince. Not a problem for us.
Here is a cut-out from the Ingram Advance catalog. According to this, for guaranteed delivery through Ingram, you had to have a signed affidavit, an agreement to the street day, have ordered before April 27th, AND all orders had to be in case quantities of 10 books.
There was some weirdness about the April 27th deadline. Apparently libraries across the country were not told about the deadline, so they were all faxing in their orders on the 27th, which needless to say made a giant busy signal to all those crazed librarians. We actually had a library from the southern corner of the state (librarian is the daughter to a local librarian) order through us because it was easier.
It is sad that the craze is over. JK Rowling did not say “never” to any more Harry Potters, but I think it is safe to say it would be a long long long while before she writes any more in the Potter-verse. However…. I cannot wait until that day, however unlikely it is!
Tags: Book, books, children's books, craze, fiction, hardcover, harry potter, harry potter craze, JK Rowling
on 28 Aug 2007 at 7:12 am 1.unwesen said …
Wow, that’s weird. Not anything you wrote, but the fact that you wrote something just 10 minutes after I checked bookembargo and thought that you hadn’t written in a while.
on 28 Aug 2007 at 10:40 am 2.Jenny said …
Oh boy, you are in for a thrill this week then!