Re: Worst case scenario

Stacie wrote:

> zoltan47 wrote:
> >How many parents,
> > teachers, or librarians will recommend a series where the main
> > character, who the child will identify with, dies? How many parents
> > will want their children to read a series where the main character has
> > a rather harsh life,saves everyone else, and in return for his
> > misfortunes gets to die? Catalog sales will plummet.
> >
>
> Lots, I imagine. Even though the series already includes one death of a
> student, people don't seem to have a problem recommending it. There are
> plenty of librarians, teachers and parents who don't think that a
> happy, happy, joy, joy ending isn't required for a book series to be
> good or a good thing to recommend to a child.
>
> For example, I was required to read Bridge To Terabithia as a child. A
> book with such a sad ending that the same teacher who assigned it to us
> and did readings from it totally refused to read the ending aloud,
> because it always made her a blubbering mess. I identified strongly
> with Anne Frank when I read her diary. In Jacob Have I Loved, one of
> the twins has a rather harsh life. Pretty rough when you own
> grandmother taunts you. Where The Red Fern Grows. I can think of a lot
> of classic books that aren't all that happy that were either
> recommended to me or assigned to me before I was in junior high. I
> really think one teacher I had was on a mission to make all of us cry
> at least once while reading an assigned book. Which probably was a good
> thing. A book that makes you cry is usually one that makes you grow.
>
> The Little Prince is guaranteed to turn me into a blubbering mess at
> the end, but I still give it to children as a Christmas gift
> occasionally, and will attempt to read it to my theoretical future
> children.
>
> Besides, I figure the publisher protected themselves with a clause that
> allowed them an "out" if the first book did not sell in sufficient
> numbers regardless of what she said about the ending. I can't see any
> publisher with a decent legal department committing themselves to
> printing all seven books even if they don't sell. They would take a
> chance on an unproven writer for a lower price than a proven writer,
> and if they didn't sell, would cut their losses and move on.

They did not take all7 books from the start. They only agreed to do 1 to 4
That was why JKR was able to set no dead line on 5. and most likely they
bought 1 with the right to give the first bid on the next two or three.
But as JKR decided that she was being run into the ground she said she
wanted no dead line on 5 This means that her contract ended at 4. and the
next 3 where to be taken up after they saw how the others sold.


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