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UNAUTHORIZED HARRY POTTER BOOK 7 NEWS: HALF-BLOOD PRINCE ANALYSIS AND SPECULATION
Nimble Books is the publisher of UNAUTHORIZED HARRY POTTER BOOK 7 NEWS: HALF-BLOOD PRINCE ANALYSIS AND SPECULATION, a 156-page “living book” with all the latest news and speculation about the culmination of the Harry Potter series. Customers who present proof of purchase receive free PDF updates forever.
Mimi Cummmins, HPBook6.com:
Kudos to the author for [a] very well written book [and] using new technologies that [keep] readers up to date. –This text refers to the Digital edition.
Dave Haber, Executive Editor, WizardNews.com:
very heavily documented … making this book an important source of information you’ll want to refer to over and over again.
TheBoyThatLived.com:
…a must for any Harry Potter fan
Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator, HPANA.com:
HPANA recommended book!
Greg S. Davidson, Amazon reviewer:
this is a pathfinder for a fundamentally new kind of book … the author’s prose is both lively and concise…
Tasha “Scifi-and-fantasy-aholic” (Small Town, Va, USA) (on Amazon):
As with a lot of us Harry Potter fans I tend to check out a lot of these “discussion” books rather skeptically. I’m very glad I decided to get this one. The author has done a great job of being informative, and offering many topics for discussion, even if there are a few typos. … all the information and discussions he gives more than make up for the oopses. All in all, I can honestly say, it’s more than worth it, especially since the author gives the option of permanent updates via e-mail for the book. Enjoy it and the discussions it will start.
Book Description
Through the magic of print-on-demand technology, this “nimble” guide to the work of best-selling author J. K. Rowling provides the latest news about the author and her works, updated whenever there are significant developments. Unlike a conventional book, for which editions are printed in quantity every couple of years, this “living book” goes through frequent “mini-editions” and is printed fresh whenever customers place an order.
For those who are curious about how often we update, the answer is that it is determined by the intersection of the occurrence of significant news and the sensible management of costs. Our electronic printer, Lightning Source, charges us fees every time we update the source file for a book. So we try to be strategic about when we do updates–but we love taking advantage of technology to deliver a superior product!
From the Author
As research for this book, I read: * Every on-line chat that J. K. Rowling has ever done. * Hundreds of news articles mentioning the quoted phrase “Half-Blood Prince” in a leading news warehouse and more hundreds of articles identified by Google News as mentioning the quoted phrase “Half-Blood Prince.” * Hundreds of blogs mentioning the quoted phrase “Half-Blood Prince” in the blog search engine Feedster. * Hundreds of posts on dozens of Potter-related websites. * Dozens of trademark applications at the UK and US patent offices. * Numerous biographies and critical works about J. K. Rowling. * And, of course, the entire series to date!
This book contains the results of my research. Over the years and especially in recent months, J. K. Rowling and others have let slip quite a bit of information about the series. I think I was able to pull together a lot of interesting information. You will notice that there are many quotations and that wherever possible I have provided an “attribution”—that is, I have identified author, title, date, and place of publication (often Internet). That way, you can judge for yourself whether my sources are solid.
About the Author
W. Frederick Zimmerman is the publisher of Nimble Books. He earned a B.A. with Honors from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from Wayne State University. He has read all of the Harry Potter books with his daughter Kelsey. He read the first three to her aloud, before she got too smart for him. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA with his beautiful wife Cheryl and their children Kelsey and Parker.
About Nimble Books
Our trusty Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary defines “nimble” as follows:
1: quick and light in motion: AGILE *nimble fingers*
2 a: marked by quick, alert, clever conception, comprehension, or resourcefulness *a nimble mind* b: RESPONSIVE, SENSITIVE *a nimble listener*
And traces the etymology to the 14th Century:
Middle English nimel, from Old English numol holding much, from niman to take; akin to Old High German neman to take, Greek nemein to distribute, manage, nomos pasture, nomos usage, custom, law
The etymology is reminiscent of the old Biblical adage, “to whom much is given, much is expected” (Luke 12:48). Nimble Books seeks to honor that Christian principle by combining the spirit of nimbleness with the Biblical concept of abundance: we deliver what you need to know about a subject in a quick, resourceful, and sensitive manner.
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Da Vinci Code Price-Tag Reaches $4,000 For Signed Copy
Da Vinci Code Price-Tag Reaches $4,000 For Signed Copy
Check out that copy of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code on your bookshelf. First edition first printings are being offered for up to (US) $600 at Abebooks.com along with a handful of signed versions priced from $1,000 to $4,000.
With the movie adaptation - starring Tom Hanks - to be premiered next month, original printings of the bestseller, recently released in paperback, are in demand. Originally sold for $24.95, a $600 copy of The Da Vinci Code represents a massive increase in value of 2300 per cent in just three years.
The New Yorker article
The New Yorker: Seymour Hersh on Iranquoting a “Pentagon adviser in the war on terror”:
The bottom line is that [as a matter of United States national policy] Iran cannot become a nuclear-weapons state. The problem is that the Iranians realize that only by becoming a nuclear state can they defend themselves against the U.S. Something bad is going to happen.”