HPstuff for christmas

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 7970

Hi --

Maya Crabtree wrote:

> When I went over to England recently, I had expeted to see piles of
> it! Maybe I was't looking in the rigth place but ALL I saw was one
> monthly calendar. and not many of it at all. that was in WHSmith (for
> those of you who are british). in fact, wehn I had looked for it in
> the store, expecting to find it in a noticable place, I had difficulty
> finding it. I then looked in the "best sellers" shelf. then in the
> "fiction " shelf, then in the "paperback" shelf, then in the " books
> by author's name" (or whateveR) shelf., ONly then did it occur to me
> to visit the children;s corner, and there is was, not displayed
> (again) in a noticable place, but in R, for Rowling. like any other
> book. not that there's anything wrong about that, just that since in
> ISRAEL this british book was so admired and being read mostly by
> adu,ts etc, I HAD expected it to be ten times more in the UK, it's
> birthplace. And no merchadise.

I too was amazed at the lack of publicity or what have you with respect
to the HP books in the UK.  I was there last April, and like Maya, I had
to really search to even *find* the books in the bookstores.  There were
no large displays like there are here.  In the US, you can't walk into a
bookstore without tripping over a large stack of HP books.  Now that the
merchandise is here, it turns out to be more widely distributed than I
had thought it would be.  I thought it would be sold exclusively through
WB stores & Hallmark stores.  Not so.  Dept stores now all have large HP
merchandise displays as well.

> Hope you all enjoy you HP things. Aren't there some which you find
> just TOO much? TOO commercialized?

So far, I think many of us have complained about the commercialization
but bought loads of the merchandise nonetheless.

Penny


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