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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
But double-published as books, no? I mean, I'm a little surprised they went ahead with audiobooks, though I imagine it's a little more justifiable than ebooks.
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I'm not sure about the later books, but I know the first were also read by both Jim Dale and Stephen Fry...
And Harry, yes, that's what I meant. But the fact that the books were also published with an "adult" cover means they knew not only children read the books...
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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
I don't think her target market is adults. Her audience has gotten a little older as the books progressed, but they have been tailored mostly to a younger set.
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She knew after book 3 that the target market was not what she had first thought it was. So, there came a second edition, an adult edition, together with the juvenile edition.
So, knowing that, this:
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but on principle, I like how she's encouraging the peer pressure around her books among young people to manifest as peer pressure to get real books, rather than gadgets to show off to their friends that are more important than the books in those gadgets.
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doesn't really make sense...
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Originally Posted by HarryT
The audio books are truly excellent. Stephen Fry, who narrates the British versions of them, is a wonderful reader, who has a different "voice" for each and every character in the book. It's very much a "performance" rather than a mere "reading". I'm not so keen on Jim Dale, who reads the American versions of the audio books, but I know that many people do like them.
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I'd love to buy the entire Fry set... I prefer him over Jim Dale by far.