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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2006 15:26:28 GMT -5
Good news (for people in the U.K. who don't have any unfair schemes, anyway)! I've found out that there's information forthcoming but that The Beatrice Letters should be coming out (subject to change, of course) on September 6th - just a day after America. ...Personally I think releasing it just a day later is quite odd - why couldn't they just release it a single day earlier? It's actually just cruel and pointless, but meh, it's a darn sight better than a month. And these are still estimated release dates, anyway, and they could change... I wonder why there's an HC TBL on Amazon.co.uk scheduled for October, though. I really dislike differing editions and release dates, as they cause no end of trouble and confusion. But yeah, my earlier fury has passed. When do books usually get released in the UK. In the US DVDs get released on tuesday and movies on friday but in the UK don't movies come out on Thursday? so do your books usually get released on on whatever day the 6th is?
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Post by Dante on Mar 5, 2006 15:30:45 GMT -5
No idea, frankly. I don't know what days things usually come out on, and frankly the very idea of certain items only coming out on certain days always seemed ridiculous to me, regardless of how true it is. All I know is that there's usually a delay between a book's publication in the U.S. and its publication over here, usually because a separate publishing house is doing it and they're setting up a different cover and operating on a delay or quite often for no reason at all except perhaps shipping times or arbitrary cruelty or some other such idiotic unfairness.
Edit: And if that were Egmont's reason then I would keep on hating them. Delaying a book just so that it came out on the "right day" would be the most utterly stupid thing I've ever heard, and to my mind, shows real contempt for the customer.
Edit Again: Oh, and Septembers 5th and 6th are a Tuesday and a Wednesday, respectively.
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Post by Alice Wilde on Mar 6, 2006 13:15:38 GMT -5
I find that the books are most often released on Tuesdays (with the exception of the last book, which, of course, will be released on a Friday). At least in the States. So, good. It's following the pattern.
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Post by Dante on Mar 6, 2006 15:53:44 GMT -5
So, I was wandering casually through the vast and ever-changing landscape of Google earlier, and stumbled across a rather helpful little page they've got on aSoUE - might I add, one of the best laid-out resources I've seen, but B&N, as I sadly realised only recently, always has been good. Here's the link: btob.barnesandnoble.com/subjects/children/unfortunateevents/index.asp?pid=9135&btob=Y"But what has this to do with TBL?" I hear you cry... or type, I guess. Well, you have to actually look at the site. Here's a sneaky little teaser from near the top: We probably all suspected something of that sort, but that's confirmation there. Still leaves it fairly open as to what we can expect, though, since we're not truly sure as to what started the series of unfortuanate events - the schism? Olaf's villainy and the actions of the Baudelaire parents? The doomed romance of Beatrice and Lemony? Some combination of these?
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Post by twistedbrain on Mar 6, 2006 15:55:48 GMT -5
Yes! *is happy* Thanks for finding that, Dante.
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Post by lauren on Mar 7, 2006 3:43:20 GMT -5
Nice, seeing as we already knew it contained letters of Beatrice, and the Lemony and Beatrice relationship happened before the unfortunate events, I guess it's just confirming what we already know. But we now know it's main focus will be on how these unfortunate events are related to the Lemony-Beatrice relationship. It reminds me of the fear street books (I read them as a kid, ok!) They had the fear street sagas to explain why so many misfortunes happened on fear street.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Mar 7, 2006 15:15:27 GMT -5
*happier than you will ever know*
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Post by Raedyn L. on Mar 7, 2006 20:31:41 GMT -5
Oh, goody! Beatrice! *squeals with joy at seeing half of Beatrice's head in silhouette* I agree about her being very elegant.
Beatrice and Lemony has always been my favourite couple next to Dewey and Kit. Mostly because they are tragic romances and I'm a sucker for those, but still.
I also love the idea of having a package of actual letters. I could send them to myself, and pretend I was Beatrice, and that the postman got confused and put them back in my own mailbox!
Anything to cure my chocolate-withdrawal-induced boredom.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Mar 8, 2006 19:40:21 GMT -5
LOL. I like your idea. This is going to be much better than I expected it to be.
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Post by Dear Dairy on Mar 9, 2006 22:52:15 GMT -5
arbitrary cruelty or some other such idiotic unfairness. Arbitrary Cruelty Idiotic Unfairness Both great names for rock bands!
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Post by s on Mar 13, 2006 20:05:32 GMT -5
Heh. Dante in a rock band.
But it's nice to have the "learn the mystery of how it all began" thing, to validate our suspicions.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Mar 16, 2006 19:05:10 GMT -5
Oooohhhh... SO getting this! *adds to list of ASoUE things that she wants*
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Post by Dante on Mar 17, 2006 2:47:33 GMT -5
According to The Thirteen Shocking Secrets of Lemony Snicket, then The Beatrice Letters will include "unsettling photographs of suspicious objects," "a double-sided poster featuring confounding clues," and "punch-out letters that serve a mysterious purpose." I guess this is why it's so expensive, and why it's referred to as a package.
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Post by lauren on Mar 17, 2006 4:49:27 GMT -5
I wonder what will be on the poster. Possibly the silhouette of Beatrice? Dang double sided, I won't know which way to pin it up. Photographs of suspciious objects Hmm rather than people like TUA we've got objects. A sugar bowl? Mrs Baudelaires coat? Poisoned Darts?
Punch out letters sound cool. But I'm not sure wether I'll actually punch them out? I might leave them in the book to keep it neat and all together.
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Post by Dante on Mar 17, 2006 11:19:08 GMT -5
I found a press release and a news article about The End, but they both mention something about TBL. The former states: The latter briefly adds:
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