I do not know why I bought this book. Perhaps it must be the challenge to possess a book that is cheaper than the “normal” price. The price difference of RM40.00 between the book sellers and the hypermarkets is remarkable. Knowing that this is the last of the series of Harry Potter’s books, this hardcover peddles at an exorbitant price of RM109.90 at the major book stalls while Tesco and Carrefour demand theirs merely at RM69.90. And the booksellers are ganging up to boycott “Harry Potter”.
Now, this keeps me wonder. Are booksellers overpricing books at their stalls? Penguin, the book distributor, claimed hypermarkets “would incur losses …that their purchase price was actually higher”. The book price is £17.99.
From my point of view, books in Malaysia are expensive. If they are not, why are books selling so cheap during the annual warehouse sales. Are booksellers making a loss then? No, I do not think so, it is just they are making less profit. Nobody sells at a loss unless he is bankrupt.
There are a total of 607 pages with 36 chapters plus one last chapter. And the first paragraph of the last chapter reads as follows:-
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first of September was crisp and golden as an apple, and as the little family bobbed across the rumbling road towards the great, sooty station, the fumes of car exhausts and the breath of pedestrians sparkled like cobwebs in the cold air. Two large cages rattled on top of the laden trolleys the parents were pushing; the owls inside them hooted indignantly, and the red-headed girl trailed tearfully behind her brothers, clutching her father’s arm.
And the conclusion of this book reads as:
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.
Now I know why everyone is so crazy about Harry Potter. J.K. Rowlings has this literacy talent to catch her readers’ attention and persuasively impel them to continue reading further.
Whether who died or who did not, I will have to read my copy to find out. To figure out this last sentence, you will have to find out yourself.
When I bought mine at Carrefour, Subang Jaya, their staff were carefully arranging the books nicely at the book counter. I even got a FREE Disney Jiggly Light Up Pen! So cute and so appreciative.
Worth the effort of parking myself at their entrance before opening time. I got mine are you going to get yours too? I am excited.... to start my book.
Now, this keeps me wonder. Are booksellers overpricing books at their stalls? Penguin, the book distributor, claimed hypermarkets “would incur losses …that their purchase price was actually higher”. The book price is £17.99.
From my point of view, books in Malaysia are expensive. If they are not, why are books selling so cheap during the annual warehouse sales. Are booksellers making a loss then? No, I do not think so, it is just they are making less profit. Nobody sells at a loss unless he is bankrupt.
There are a total of 607 pages with 36 chapters plus one last chapter. And the first paragraph of the last chapter reads as follows:-
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first of September was crisp and golden as an apple, and as the little family bobbed across the rumbling road towards the great, sooty station, the fumes of car exhausts and the breath of pedestrians sparkled like cobwebs in the cold air. Two large cages rattled on top of the laden trolleys the parents were pushing; the owls inside them hooted indignantly, and the red-headed girl trailed tearfully behind her brothers, clutching her father’s arm.
And the conclusion of this book reads as:
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.
Now I know why everyone is so crazy about Harry Potter. J.K. Rowlings has this literacy talent to catch her readers’ attention and persuasively impel them to continue reading further.
Whether who died or who did not, I will have to read my copy to find out. To figure out this last sentence, you will have to find out yourself.
When I bought mine at Carrefour, Subang Jaya, their staff were carefully arranging the books nicely at the book counter. I even got a FREE Disney Jiggly Light Up Pen! So cute and so appreciative.
Worth the effort of parking myself at their entrance before opening time. I got mine are you going to get yours too? I am excited.... to start my book.
1 comment:
hope you really enjoy it
the book won't earn the store much ... if anything at all ... but it got you into the store!
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