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Post by cwm on Jan 19, 2009 14:19:29 GMT -5
So the end of this September indicates 10 years to the day that TBB and TRR were first published. Perhaps we'll get a nice new book to celebrate the ocassion?
Possibly a '10th Anniversary Edition' of TBB, as with Philosopher's Stone, or the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain? We've already had five or six different versions of TBB, what's one more?
Assuming that HarperCollins/Egmont do choose to publish such a book, what do you think might be in it?
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Post by Dante on Jan 19, 2009 14:37:00 GMT -5
I somewhat doubt it; the series isn't really special enough, and their sales of gimmick reissues have never been good. Might be a nice time to reissue the BBRE, or one of Egmont's TBB special editions, but I'm not expecting it. There are enough separate editions of TBB already that they've had to scrap one before (the "private library edition").
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Post by cwm on Jan 19, 2009 14:51:19 GMT -5
Might be a nice time to reissue the BBRE, Or issue it at all in the UK... I'd be happy with an identical copy of TBB with the words '10th Anniversary Special Edition', possibly with a few negative alliterations in there, slapped on the front, and maybe a new cover. It'd show there's still some interest in the series.
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Post by Dante on Jan 19, 2009 15:06:38 GMT -5
Might be a nice time to reissue the BBRE, Or issue it at all in the UK... I think they think they have. UnfortunateEvents.com's old shop listed the Egmont special versions of TBB available, and at least one boasted "exclusive endnotes" or some such, which could only refer to the BBRE notes. They are, of course, not in the actual copies. But yes, I quite agree; they could easily fob us off with a book we should have had five years ago. Maybe with a U.K. version of the box cover. It'd also artificially create interest, I think; serve as marketing for the series. "Disastrous Decade 10th Anniversary Edition" or something like that would be good. Throw in the BBRE notes on the cheap, give it a fancy eye-riffic new cover now Brett Helquist's art has improved (or just recycle some old art in a deluxe frame), it'd be a winner. Drat, I kinda want this now. Edit: They could even just publish whatever they had planned for the "Private Library Edition." I have it on good authority it was going to be "ultra-fancy," but nothing more. I just wonder what form that would've taken, as that could equally well describe the BBRE. Doesn't get (ultra-)fancier than that.
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Post by cwm on Jan 19, 2009 15:19:24 GMT -5
Disastrous Decade. I love it.
'Private Library Edition' suggests to me a really fancy cover, perhaps with a dustjacket. Possibly it indicates a V.F.D. private library and is filled with secret codes via subtle alterations to the text. Since it was cancelled and we've never heard anything about what was going to be in it, though, possibly it wasn't that important.
Now I'm in the same boat as you though, because I'm conjuring up this image of a nice shiny dustjacket, jet black, with some embossed golden chains of interlinking eyes...it looks really lovely in the mind's eye. It also appears to be somehow at least three times thicker than TBB actually is in my mind, though.
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