The Guardian.co.uk question whether the retailing the final book about the boy wizard at such a low price risks devaluing JK Rowling’s entire series for generations to come
Asda’s decision to sell Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the absurd price of £1 may end up doing a great deal more damage to J K Rowling than the unauthorised Harry Potter compendium, which she recently went to court to try to block, ever could. Discounting of the Harry Potter novels has always been taken to the extreme, but had previously remained within the realms of commercial feasibility. Asda has brought it to the level of the remainder bin.
Source: Guardian.co.uk
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