JKR publishes new book after Deathly Hallows

I was trying to get to an article on some genetically modified glowing cats when a piece of news caught my attention. It might be old news to some of you. But I thought I'd post it anyway.

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" has been published by JKR. There seem to be only 7 of these books though, and they might be handwritten.

I maybe wrong. Here's the article I read and the link..:

Fri Dec 14, 3:04 PM ET


LONDON (AFP) - Online retailer Amazon revealed Friday it was the mystery buyer of British author J.K. Rowling's first book since the phenomenally successful Harry Potter series.

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" was sold at auction at Sotheby's Thursday to art dealers on behalf of an unidentified client for 1.95 million pounds (2.72 million euros, 3.95 million dollars), 40 times its expected price.
All proceeds from the sale of the handwritten single volume will go to Rowling's charity, Children's Voice, which helps vulnerable children across Europe.

Amazon has published editorial reviews of the book's content and photographs on its website, although it did not reveal if it would also make extracts from the book available.

"Even before establishing her charity, J.K. Rowling had done the world a rare and immeasurably valuable service, enlarging forever our concept of the way books can touch people, and in particular children, in modern times," Amazon's founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos said in a statement.

Amazon has sold 12 million of the Potter books.

"The Tales" play a key role in the seventh and last Potter tome, "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", which came out in July, featuring as the volume of five wizarding fairy tales left to Potter's friend Hermione Granger by headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

One of the tales appears in "Deathly Hallows", but the remaining four are told in "The Tales" for the first time.

There are just seven of the books, bound in brown Moroccan leather covered with a silver skull motif and jewels. Rowling gave the other six to people involved with the Potter books.

The 42-year-old author has become a billionaire, with the tales of the boy wizard translated into 64 languages.


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Exceptionally cool.
I had to look it up.

The other four stories are
The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
The Fountain of Fair Fortune
The Warlock's Hairy Heart
Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump

I found a review of the stories here:

Amazon.com: The Fairy Tales of J.K. Rowling

The reviews were good, but
It also gives a link to a summary of the whole story.
I'm sorry that I read the first one.
It will definately ruin it if I ever get my hands on the real thing.

Now, what was that about
genetically modified glowing cats?

Well the Koreans have genetically modified some cats to glow in the dark. They added some genes of fluorescence as they were cloning the cats. Now the cats glow in UV light. It was done to see if clones can be embedded with characterestics or traits. The success means that lab cats can be bred with human genetic disorders to search for cures.

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they also have got mice with ears on their back....

i've heard abt dat too. recently that was auctioned and was sold for a very high price. i'll tell the details later..

Do you think she'll publish more in the future ? I really don't have that much to buy that very one ...

Oh, they do not.

I'll be waiting.

Yeh it says she only made 7 of them and amazon.com bought one for $4million dollars.They auctioned them for the Childrens voice charity.Now amazon.com has now posted two synopsis from "The Tales of Beedle the Bard." So i heard...

they do...look..(dont if you just have eaten)
BBC News | HEALTH | Artificial liver 'could be grown'
but that was back in 1997, now they are talking about growing liver....

All ready read it.
Its not that hard to get another JK book when you visit your grandparents for Christmas in Britain.
Actually this book was very distasteful to me. I didn't really enjoy it very much.
But then again some of you here may want to read it. I recommend it to read.
I just didn't like the way the story was set up.
I enjoyed a few chapters at least.