The Casual Vacancy

J.K. Rowling's new book is now available for preorder.

Any thoughts on an ebook priced at $19.99?

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Permalink Reply by Jude Hardin on April 13, 2012 at 4:01am

Here's the link to the Kindle version: http://tiny.cc/ffvncw

Permalink Reply by Pepper Smith on April 13, 2012 at 4:01am

I would really, really have to want a book to pay that much for it, paper or ebook.  Can't say I want this one that badly.

Permalink Reply by I. J. Parker on April 13, 2012 at 4:14am

Well, whatever the traffic will bear.  It will sell.  And the critics are waiting.  I like Harry Potter, but I have no great hopes for her as a mystery author.  What gets me is that all these mega sellers in other genres want to try mysteries?  Why?  Why not stay with what you're good at?

Permalink Reply by Keith Dixon on April 13, 2012 at 9:31pm

Hear hear!

I disliked her writing style in the Potter books so couldn't get into them. I felt she was always faintly patronising towards her audience and her characters. Lord knows what she'll get up to in a mystery novel. Is it for kids, does anyone know? Like an Enid Blyton Famous Five?

Permalink Reply by Barbara Scott-Emmett on April 18, 2012 at 9:09am

No, it's for adults.

 

A curiosity rather than a must read, I think.

 

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