Hi Sam,
I find the marketing aspect interesting, though. I just hope this company
(is it Warner?) continues to promote books as it has this one. OK, so it
has to be those that can be made into a movie. Neverthess, we cannot lose,
surely.
Bronwyn
Bronwyn Ritchie
Library technician
Chatswood Hills state School
Queensland, Australia
britc3@eq.edu.au
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From: "Sam DiMartino" <chicagosam1@YAHOO.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:51 AM
Subject: [LM_NET] Had enough of Harry Potter?
> Is anyone else here as happy as I am that this is the last of the Harry
> Potter books? To see children lined up at midnight to get their Potter
> book to me is sisturbing. Why? Because I think they are victims of the
> Potter Media Machine that has turned this book into a "must have" or
> you're not cool thing. I think that children are being manipulated and
> used by the marketing firm who markets this book. I wonder how many of
> those children standing in line will actually read the book and not just
> have it in their collection as a kind of status symbol?
>
> Sam DiMartino
> Technology Coordinator
> Prosser HIgh School
> Chicago, IL 60639
>
> chicagosam1@yahoo.com
>
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