British Editions spotted in Austin TX!

[Jen Reese]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "kkersey_austin" <kkersey at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 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
> isthey 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. 

Jen:  Cool! I'm in Austin too and will check out these resources.  I 
have one UK edition, HBP, because my sister living in New Zealand sent 
it to me for my birthday.  I'd love to have the set in the UK editions, 
or even better, find a Stephen Fry edition of the audiobooks because 
I've heard so many good things about his presentation.  I checked out 
ordering them through Bloomsbury and e-bay and his version of the 
audiobooks on CD were *so* expensive, esp. since even the ones on ebay 
were shipped from UK for the most part.  Maybe I should check out 
cassette prices.

As for release parties---avoiding them all in case of spoiling.  I'm 
going to do what I did for HEB and hit the 24-hour grocery store at 6 
am to snag a copy while they were still taking them out of boxes. :)