British Editions spotted in Austin TX!

[kkersey_austin]

I got a really terrific Mother's Day present a couple of weeks ago -
the Bloomsbury, that is, Stephen Fry version of the CoS audiobook.
Unfortunately it is on cassette tapes instead of CD, but on the other
hand it came with a nifty little shoulder bag carrying case which was
itself worth the *very* small amount my dear family paid at Half Price
Books. It was new, in original packaging, by the way, and rumor is
they may have more there.

Then later that day, as we happened to be downtown, we stopped in at
Book People (a huge independent bookstore) and they had about half a
dozen copies of the British children's paperback of PoA - in the
clearance section!  The books did have some very minor scuffing on the
page edges but once again the price was right. No, the store doesn't
normally carry the British editions so I'm not sure how they ended up
there. My seven-year-old was absolutely thrilled to own his very own
copy of an HP book (and absolutely disappointed when he realized that
mean old mommy could still confiscate it if it was interfering with
getting homework done). 

While I was at Book People another customer asked about the Book 7
release plans and I jumped in on the discussion - the clerk said they
expected at least 3000 people to pick up the book at the midnight
release! Yikes! Our church will once again be having a Saturday
morning book release party so we'll be doing that instead. That is,
unless my kid wins that sweepstakes to attend the JKR reading....

Elisabet, who would have posted this sooner but Yahoomort kept making
this group's web interface "unavailable"