February 1, 200719 yr Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the last of seven installments of the boy wizard's adventures, will be published July 21 J.K. Rowlingsaid Thursday. Rowling announced the publication date on her Web site. Bloomsbury, her British publisher, said it would publish a children's hardback edition, an adult hardback, a special gift edition and an audio book on the same day. Scholastic Children's Books, the U.S. publisher, said it would offer a hardback edition at a suggested retail price of $34.99, a deluxe edition at $65.00 and a reinforced library edition at $39.99. Bloomsbury noted that this year is the 10th anniversary of the publication of the first "Harry Potter" book in the phenomenally successful series. The "Potter" books have sold 325 million copies worldwide and been translated into 64 languages, Bloomsbury said. The last book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," sold 2,009,574 copies in Britain on the first day of its release, Bloomsbury said. The Potter franchise is so important to the company's earnings that it announced the publication to the London Stock Exchange. Bloomsbury shares were up 2.2 percent to $4.40 after the announcement. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_en_ot/people_rowling fun stuff...I think the 5th movie comes out around that time too...
February 1, 200719 yr I thought it was 7/7/07, at least that's what management at my bookstore thought. Anway, it should be great, I'm going to dress up as Ron for our midnight release party like I did last time.
February 2, 200719 yr Seems just like yesterday that the Half Blood Prince was released. Amazing that she was able to churn it out so fast! :o
February 2, 200719 yr I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!! He's going to live..he's going to live...he's going to live. this book is going to be so wicked awesome.
February 2, 200719 yr Seems just like yesterday that the Half Blood Prince was released. Amazing that she was able to churn it out so fast! :o Two years is a long time.
February 4, 200719 yr fun stuff...I think the 5th movie comes out around that time too... the movie comes out 8 days before the book.
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