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Blizzard EU has announced the World of Warcraft Annual, published by Pedigree Books Limited, is now available via Pedigree's website or Amazon UK. For a limited time, the book is available 50% off -- £3.99 via Pedigree. The World of Warcraft Annual is an activity book full of quizzes, crosswords, puzzles, and more. This product is a UK exclusive -- unless you can find someone to ship it overseas, you aren't getting it at all.

As an American, I found the product itself puzzling. A hardcover activity book? That's a bit fancy for something you're going to chop up and scribble in, isn't it? Apparently annuals like these are a popular Christmas gift in the UK. Where Americans make activity books in paperback with the expectation that they ought to be disposable after children tear them to pieces, they're made to last overseas where they often become an heirloom of sorts, kept for a lifetime alongside baby's first crayon doodles. Let's be real, though: the vast majority of these will end up on grown adults' bookshelves, right?

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