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    CHARLIE HEBDO WITH PROPHET MOHAMED COVER SELLING FOR MORE THAN 500 ON EBAY

    14:20 14/01/2015 >> SOCIETY

    Just hours after it hit newsstands in France, copies of the so-called
    Charlie Hebdo "survivors issue" have begun appearing on eBay with
    sellers charging many times their face value, The Independent reported.

    Shops in Paris are selling the magazine for EURO 3 (£2.30), but online
    listings are offering it for around in a direct purchase for around
    EURO 50 - and auction lot bids in the UK and US have passed £500.

    There has been huge demand around the world for Wednesday's edition,
    printed in an unprecedented run of three million copies.

    Its front cover carries a cartoon of a crying Prophet Mohamed holding a
    sign saying "Je suis Charlie", a response to the killing of 12 people,
    including eight journalists, at its Paris offices.

    By 7am on Wednesday, most retailers in France's capital had sold out of
    the new edition. Long queues formed outside stores that opened later,
    as the country's creaky distribution system appeared to struggle with
    the extraordinary demand.

    The inflated eBay listings will be galling to some, particularly as
    some of the proceeds from the souvenir edition are to go the families
    of those killed.

    But the bumper run will also save the magazine from what had been
    seen as near-bankruptcy.

    Source: Panorama.am

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