(from BBC News)
"A collection of fairytales penned by Harry Potter author JK Rowling is to be published to raise money for a children's charity. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which Rowling first mentioned in The Deathly Hallows, will go on sale on 4 December. A handwritten copy of the book was sold at auction for £1.95m last year [to Amazon.com]. Rowling wrote and illustrated seven copies of the book, but offered only one for sale. It was thought the book would never be published."
The book will be available in two editions: a normal paperback, RRP £6.99 or $12.99 (the UK edition and US edition have differing covers (the UK one is far, far better) but presumably identical content), or a £50/$100 Collector's Edition, available exclusively through Amazon and limited to "no more than" 100,000 copies. It looks rather pretty too.
Order now before it sells out, I say. Net profits from both editions go to the Children's High Level Group charity.
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