Rowling's 'Beedle the Bard' bought by Amazon

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Rowling's 'Beedle the Bard' bought by Amazon

Dec 14 2007

Amazon have announced it was the mystery buyer of the copy of J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard, bought at auction for £1.95 million (~$4 million) this Wednesday. Amazon have established a website where it is posting images from the extensively illustrated book. In addition, they will be publishing reviews of the five fairy tales and have set up a discussion forum.

Source: Beedle The Bard website at Amazon

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