I am so psyched if you Harry Potter fans don't already know. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, will go on sale only on Amazon on December 4, 2008.

I knew it would. There was no way J.K. Rowling would do that to the fans and I love the fact the proceeds will go to charity.

There is two versions one the standrad hardcover version and the amazing collector's replica edition which will set you back a $100.00.

You can PRE-ORDER it.

J.K. Rowling Children's Charity to Publish `Beedle the Bard'
Bloomberg article

July 31 (Bloomberg) -- J.K. Rowling's ``The Tales of Beedle the Bard,'' a handwritten book of fairy tales that Amazon.com Inc. bought for 1.95 million pounds ($3.86 million) in December, will be published to raise an estimated 4 million pounds for deprived European children, an English charity said today.

The Children's High Level Group, a charity co-founded by Rowling, said in an e-mailed statement that proceeds from the exclusive agreement with Amazon and publishers Bloomsbury Plc and Scholastic Corp. will aid the more than one million European children and teenagers growing up in ``large residential institutions,'' often without adequate food and shelter.

``The Tales of Beedle the Bard,'' a book of five wizardry fairy tales mentioned in ``Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,'' is one of seven copies Rowling handmade after finishing the Potter series.

The Children's High Level Group said it plans to publish three editions of the book, all in English, to be printed and distributed by Bloomsbury, Scholastic and Amazon.

The Bloomsbury and Scholastic editions, priced at 6.99 pounds and $12.99, respectively, will include an introduction by Rowling and commentary on each fairy tale from Albus Dumbledore, the beloved headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the statement said.

Amazon plans to produce as many as 100,000 copies of a collector's edition that will mimic the look and feel of the handwritten original, the release said. It will be priced at 50 pounds and $100. All editions go on sale on Dec. 4.

``The new edition will include the Tales themselves, translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, and with illustrations by me, but also notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore, which appear by generous permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters' Archive,'' Rowling said in the statement from the charity, which she co-founded with Emma Nicholson, a member of the U.K. House of Lords.