[bksvol-discuss] Release date for final 'Harry Potter' announced
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:41:38 -0600
I just spotted this announcement on the Dallas Morning News RSS feed and
thought people might like to know when the next Harry Potter book is coming
out.
Gerald
Release date for final 'Harry Potter' announced
09:21 AM CST on Thursday, February 1, 2007
Associated Press
LONDON - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the last of seven
installments of the boy wizard's adventures, will be published July 21,
author J.K. Rowling
said 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.
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