Re: [LM_NET] Had enough of Harry Potter?

[Bronwyn <britc3@EQ.EDU.AU>]

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
----- Original Message ----- 
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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