Raincoast Books Harry Potter Launch Weekend Sweepstakes Contest Starts Today
Raincoast Books launches the Harry Potter Launch Weekend Sweepstakes. Harry Potter book fans, age 8-16, are eligible to enter at http://www.raincoast.com/harrypotter. The Harry Potter Launch Weekend Sweepstakes Contest runs from June 1 to June 16. The Grand Prize is a trip to Edinburgh to meet J.K. Rowling.
Vancouver (PRWEB) June 1, 2005 -- Raincoast Books launches an online contest
today, June 1st, in partnership with over 400 independent bookstores, Amazon.ca
and other retailers across Canada.
Harry Potter book fans, age 8-16, are
eligible to enter at http://www.raincoast.com/harrypotter/index.html
The
Harry Potter Launch Weekend Sweepstakes Contest runs from June 1 to June 16. The
Grand Prize is a trip to Edinburgh to meet J.K. Rowling.
The Grand Prize
winner will be selected on June 17. The winning Canadian Harry Potter fan (age
8-16) , along with a guardian or parent, will travel to Edinburgh. On the stroke
of midnight on the eve of publication on Saturday 16th July J.K. Rowling will
read from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the latest installment in the
Harry Potter book adventure in the Great Hall at Edinburgh Castle.
Her
audience of seventy aspiring cub reporters will attend the Harry Potter
Children’s Press Conference Weekend on behalf of newspapers, and other
organizations from around the world. The cub reporters will meet J.K. Rowling
who will give them each a signed copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
There will be a photographer at the midnight event who will take a photograph of
each child with J. K. Rowling as she gives them their book. The cub reporters
will then have the weekend to read the book in a specially created Reading Room
at Edinburgh Castle before attending the Children’s Press Conference on Sunday
17th July to question J. K. Rowling about the new book.
The Grand Prize
winner of the Raincoast Harry Potter Launch Weekend Sweepstakes Contest will
receive:
- four night, five day trip for two people (one cub reporter age
8-16 and one adult) to Edinburgh, Scotland
- return economy airfare
-
four nights accommodation (double occupancy) in a hotel located in
Edinburgh
- airport and hotel transfers in Edinburgh
- passes to the Harry
Potter Launch Weekend event and the Children’s Press Conference at Edinburgh
Castle (July 17).
(approx. value $5000 Cdn.)
Although no purchase
will be necessary, entrants will need a special Harry Potter password to enter,
obtainable on (a) special postcards that are available without charge at
participating independent bookstores, Amazon.ca and other retailers, and (b)
online at http://www.raincoast.com/harrypotter/index.html . All valid
entries submitted between June 1st and June 16th at http://www.raincoast.com/harrypotter/index.html will be
entered to win, including residents of Quebec.
For more information
regarding the Raincoast Books publicity and marketing campaign, please contact:
Jamie Broadhurst
Director of Marketing
Raincoast
Books
604-323-7124
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Raincoast Books
is a Canadian publisher of the Harry Potter book series. Raincoast is a
publisher and distributor based in Vancouver, BC. Raincoast Publishing produces
a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles for adults and children.
Raincoast Distribution is the exclusive Canadian distributor for some of the
leading publishers from the U.K., the U.S. and Canada.
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