Harry Potter and the Day of the Painfully Small Profit First Word
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WHEN you think of price wars, the douce town of Aberfeldy doesn't spring to mind as a likely battleground. Even so, last Saturday, as history's most hyped novel was hoisted by forklift truck onto shelves, the town's two bookshops were a prime example of the agonising calculations that were going on all across Britain and North America over Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Appropriate, really, given that J K Rowling lives near by. One shop was selling it at pounds-10.99 (the cover price is pounds- 16.99), and was sold out by mid-morning. More stock would arrive, it said, on Monday.See the full content of this document
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Harry Potter and the Day of the Painfully Small Profit First Word
The other was taking a bigger gamble and offering it at pounds- 12.99, but including in the price a pounds-2 voucher to be redeemed against other books. It still had plenty of copies on display, but the owner was unp...
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