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Pre-orders for J.K. Rowling’s next book, Tales of Beedle the Bard is keeping us busy. We had been thinking hard to create some exciting offers for Rowling’s fans in India. To know the latest offers available now , visit http://www.thestorez.com/tales-of-beedle-the-bard.html. Read on, to know more about the book that  thousands of fans are eagerly waiting to get their hands on, post Dec 4th in India. TheStorez.com will ship this book on the same day of launch, and readers anywhere in India can get the book within 1-2 days from the launch date. Happy Reading!

Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling

…’And as for this book,’ said Hermione, ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard… I’ve never even heard of them!’
‘You’ve never heard of The Tales of Beedle the Bard?’ said Ron incredulously. ‘You’re kidding, right?’….From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers’ attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger’s new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J. K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales: -The Wizard and the Hopping Pot -The Fountain of Fair Fortune -The Warlock’s Hairy Heart -Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump -The Tale of the Three Brothers.

The stories are accompanied by delightful pen-and-ink illustrations by Ms.Rowling herself, featuring a still-life frontispiece for each one. Professor Dumbledore’s commentary — apparently written some eighteen months before his death — reveals not just his vast knowledge of Wizarding lore, but also more of his personal qualities: his sense of humor, his courage, his pride in his abilities, and his hard-won wisdom. Names familiar from the Harry Potter novels sprinkle the pages, including Aberforth Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy and his forebears, and Sir Nicholas deMimsy-Porpington (or “Nearly Headless Nick”), as well as other professors at Hogwarts and the past owners of the Elder Wand. Dumbledore tells us of incidents unique to the Wizarding world, like hilariously troubled theatrical productions at Hogwarts or the dangers of having a “hairy heart.” But he also reveals aspects of the Wizarding world that his Muggle readers might find all too familiar, like censorship, intolerance, and questions about the deepest mysteries in life.

But not only are these tales the equal of fairy tales we now know and love, reading them gives new insight into the world of Harry Potter. This purchase also represents another very important form of giving: From every sale of this book, Scholastic will give its net proceeds to The Children’s High Level Group, a charity cofounded in 2005 by J. K. Rowling and Emma Nicholson MEP to make life better for vulnerable children.

On an ecommerce site, there are the usual features of helping the user buy his goods and then there are the “Vow” features that really takes you off your ground. One such “Vow” feature is Google’s book preview where select books are available for preview. Readers can look into these books and read sections of it.

Now, this is where TheStorez.com would like the book lovers to gain more. Integrating with Google’s Book Preview, TheStorez.com customers would henceforth be able to see a preview of select books.  Even as this blog entry is being posted there are books being added with preview enabled on them.  To see a preview of the books, a “Google Preview” button

appears on the book details page. Click on this to read sections of the book. In case you do not see this button for any book, it implies that preview is not available for that book.

Take a look at this feature on this book -

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Happy reading!!

Brisingr (Inheritance Cycle, Book 3) @ TheStorez.com

Brisingr is Book Number 3 of the Inheritance Cycle, penned by Christopher Paolini. Paolini started writing Eragon in 1998, when he was barely 15 years old. After revising it, his family self-published it, and started promoting the book in libraries and schools in 2002 and early 2003. Alfred A. Knopf Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books published Eragon in 2003 and since then, it has been one of the biggest hits with children and young adults world-wide. Paolini initially announced the series of stories as an Inheritance Trilogy of 3 books, but since the author felt that his story needs one more book to give justice to the plot, he expanded it into an Inheritance Cycle of 4 books. Book 2 was Eldest and was also a huge hit. Brisingr is Book 3, and its already topping the pre-order charts in bookstores all over the world.

Its release is much awaited in India as well, and TheStorez.com is happy to make it available for shipping on the first day of its launch in India, on Sep 20, 2008. To know more about Brisingr, hear Paolini read an extract from Brisingr, and pre-order your copy at a special 35% off, visit Brisingr @ TheStorez.com. To know more of Inheritance Cycle Books 1 and 2, visit Eragon and Eldest.

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Amar Chitra Katha, was founded in 1967 and is a household name in India. It is synonymous with the Illustrated Indian stories from the great epics, mythology, history, literature, oral folktales and many other sources. With more than 400 comics that have sold 90+ million copies to-date, Amar Chitra Katha is a cultural phenomenon in the Illustrated classic format.

Popular stories like Tenali Raman, Birbal, Panchatantra, Jataka Tales, Mahabharata make this collection very special. These titles are very affordable at Rs 35 for a single book, Rs 80 for a 3-in-1 edition and Rs 195 for a 5-in-one edition. Having sold a huge number of these books to children, we know how much kids like them.

This post is to announce to you that we have now made available for sale, the entire collection of Amar Chitra Katha. The titles under this collection can be bought through http://www.thestorez.com.

What business are we in? What’s our vision?

TheStorez.com is a new Online Bookstore for conveniently buying a wide range of books anywhere from India. TheStorez.com’s vision is to be a world-class online retailer offering superior value, convenience and customer service to online shoppers world-wide. We launch our Online Bookstore for the Indian market in May 2008 as a first step towards realising this vision.

What’s special with TheStorez.com?
We strive to create value for our customers. In TheStorez.com, our customers will experience:

1. Safe and Secure Shopping at all points in time. We process payments through CC Avenue’s secure Payment Gateway. CC Avenue’s Payment Gateway collects your credit card information most securely using industry standard 128-bit SSL encryption. CC Avenue’s Payment Gateway servers are authenticated by Verisign and is the leading payment gateway service provider in India. We are in the process of adding ICICI Payment Gateway to process Visa and MasterCard credit cards.
2. We work hard in keeping our supply chain operations cost efficient and we are glad to pass most of the benfits to you in terms of good discounts on the book listed prices. As a result, you will surely find books available with us at a lower price than your local bookstore.
3. Customer Service
   We understand that the best value we can create for you is by providing superior customer service at all times. Which means, we will employ our best efforts in shipping out orders, help you with your queries and anything else to be of assistance to you.
4. 24/7 Bookstore
   Being an online bookstore, we are open 24/7 offering you a convenient way of researching and buying books whenever you need them. Moreover, you neednt spend any more time searching for books that you require. Just drop us a request and if not already available in our website, we will gladly locate it for you and procure it for you.
5. One-page Checkout
   Buying books have never been so easier. After you are done selecting the books you wish to purchase, buying the book is just one page away (where we collect your contact and shipping information) before directing you to the Payment Gateway and complete your order. We are keeping our shopping engine simple and yet powerful to ensure that you enjoy shopping with us.
6. Additional features
   • Gift Messages: You can send customised gift messages along with your order. You can also send unique gift messages for every item in your gift order
   • Multiple Shipping Addresses: You can send items in your order to multiple shipping addresses, thus offering you convenience when ordering books to be sent to multiple shipping addresses. Since you will be making only one consolidated order and payment for all the items in your cart, using this feature makes your check-out becomes much faster and easier when having mutliple items to be sent to different addresses.
   • Recommend to a Friend: Letting people know about great books is now easy. When you are viewing the details of any book in our website, you will find a “Recommend to a friend” link and you can click it and send email messages to your friends to let them know about the book.

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