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Video: Arthur Levine reads Tales of Beedle the Bard
Scholastic has updated their site with a video showing publisher Arthur Levine reading one of the Tales of Beedle the Bard entitled The Fountain of Fair Fortune, which can be viewed here and below.
The site will update later today with J.K. Rowling reading one of her tales from the Tea Party in Scotland, which we will have up when it is made available online.
The book is available for purchase from 12:01 AM on December 4th around the world, and can be ordered via the following links:
I arrived at my local Border's bookstore around 9 pm in order to get The Tales of Beedle the Bard. By the time someone else had showed up to purchase a copy as well, they only had to wait 15 minutes!
This woman and I began discussing why there wasn't any more people there. We came up with 3 possible theories:
1) It's a school night.
2) People were going to wait until the last possible second before they came to purchase the book.
3) Twilight is more popular.
At one point we began discussing the Harry Potter theme park that will be ariving in Orlando soon. The woman thought that Warner Bros. had moved the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to go along with the opening of the park. I had mentioned that Warner Bros. had moved the release date from November 21 to July 17 because the Harry Potter films that were released during the summer did so well. I had also mentioned that I had heard a rumor that they moved the date because Daniel Radcliffe was too busy with Equus to promote Harry Potter. She replied with a comment that I would get in trouble posting on here.
I ended up being the first person at the store to purchase the book. I got home 10 minutes ago. I'm going to start reading the book after I have had some sleep.
Wow...shame man..You do know Dan had nothing to do with the change in release date, he said he would have mad it to the premire but would be exhausted the next night on stage...but he didn't know anything until a day before the statement was made to the public...
I arrived at my local Border's bookstore around 9 pm in order to get The Tales of Beedle the Bard. By the time someone else had showed up to purchase a copy as well, they only had to wait 15 minutes!
This woman and I began discussing why there wasn't any more people there. We came up with 3 possible theories:
1) It's a school night.
2) People were going to wait until the last possible second before they came to purchase the book.
3) Twilight is more popular.
At one point we began discussing the Harry Potter theme park that will be ariving in Orlando soon. The woman thought that Warner Bros. had moved the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to go along with the opening of the park. I had mentioned that Warner Bros. had moved the release date from November 21 to July 17 because the Harry Potter films that were released during the summer did so well. I had also mentioned that I had heard a rumor that they moved the date because Daniel Radcliffe was too busy with Equus to promote Harry Potter. She replied with a comment that I would get in trouble posting on here.
I ended up being the first person at the store to purchase the book. I got home 10 minutes ago. I'm going to start reading the book after I have had some sleep.
The party I was at had about 15 people, maximum. I think the main problem was that it's a school night.
I can say, without a doubt, that being a school night affected attendance. My girls are 8 and 10 and I could not let them go w/ me and stay til past midnight. And their friends were the same way.....simply too late for smaller kids.
Video: Arthur Levine reads Tales of Beedle the Bard 
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