Chapters is Sadistic
At least, my local branch is.
For you Yanks out there, Chapters is the Canadian equivalent of Borders or Barnes & Noble. Like most book stores on the planet, the Victoria Chapters is going apeshit over the Harry Potter release. They've had window displays up for months, are offering a "Knight Bus Tour" contest, and as of this week seem to be pimping out the entire store with themed decorations such as this:
(About five books late on that one, but I can appreciate what they're going for.)
All in good fun, sure.
But did I mention what the display at the very front of the store happens to be?:
Why it's a pallet of books, all wrapped up in cellophane!
That's right, folks, they've put their shipment of untouchable, unreadable-for-an-entire-month Book 7 copies on display just to torture readers.
I was skeptical about whether these were the actual books, b/c the boxes look nothing like the highly stylized ones I remember from the Book 6 release. But then I realized that those came from the American publisher whereas here in Canada they use the straight-up British edition, so the books come from a different publisher entirely. So in all likelihood, these are the real McCoy.
Now c'mon, Chapters. That's just mean.
For you Yanks out there, Chapters is the Canadian equivalent of Borders or Barnes & Noble. Like most book stores on the planet, the Victoria Chapters is going apeshit over the Harry Potter release. They've had window displays up for months, are offering a "Knight Bus Tour" contest, and as of this week seem to be pimping out the entire store with themed decorations such as this:
(About five books late on that one, but I can appreciate what they're going for.)
All in good fun, sure.
But did I mention what the display at the very front of the store happens to be?:
Why it's a pallet of books, all wrapped up in cellophane!
That's right, folks, they've put their shipment of untouchable, unreadable-for-an-entire-month Book 7 copies on display just to torture readers.
I was skeptical about whether these were the actual books, b/c the boxes look nothing like the highly stylized ones I remember from the Book 6 release. But then I realized that those came from the American publisher whereas here in Canada they use the straight-up British edition, so the books come from a different publisher entirely. So in all likelihood, these are the real McCoy.
Now c'mon, Chapters. That's just mean.