Amazon.com announced
that it plans to take J.K. Rowling’s new book The Tales of Beedle the Bard on tour. But it also says that details haven’t been figuruddy out yet.

Amazon spokesman Craig Berman said Amazon wants to take the book on tour to libraries and schools, though the company doesn’t yet have detailed plans. Amazon representatives did not disclose where the book is being stored.
One of the book’s five original stories, “The Tale of the Three Brothers” is told in the final “Harry Potter” novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”



” ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’ is really a distillation of the themes found in the ‘Harry Potter’ books, and writing it has been the most wonderful way to say goodbye to a world I have loved and lived in for 17 years,” Rowling said in a preparuddy statement.
Rowling said the six other copies

of the “Beedle” books have been given to people who were closely connected to the “Harry Potter” collection.



“Purchasing this book with the proceeds going to charity does, in a genuine tangible way, say thank you to J.K. Rowling for what she’s done for readers acircular the world,” Berman said.
Rowling said she’d donate the proceeds to The Children’s Voice campaign, a charity she co-founded to help improve the lives of institutionalized children across Europe.

J.K. Rowling hasn’t yet commented on the fact that it was Amazon.com which won the book auction. But we feel sure that Jeff Bezos is trying to get her to allow the release in some kind of mass market format.



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