| Posted by: Heatherhobbit | | Rowling has finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. According to her website we will be getting a release date in 24 hours. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Manuscript for 6th Harry Potter book completed
SINGAPORE: British author J.K. Rowling has completed the manuscript for another Harry Potter book. Rowling said on her website that she has submitted the manuscript for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to her English-language publishers in the United Kingdom.
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is the sixth in Rowling's projected series of seven Harry Potter titles. The publication date is expected to be announced on Tuesday.
The previous book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", was published on June 21, 2003. This suggests that "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" could be available to readers next year.
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| Posted by: fuscia | | Harry Potter Book Six Coming July 16
Source: Scholastic Corporation December 21, 2004
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling, the sixth in the best-selling series, has been scheduled for release on July 16, 2005 in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, it was announced today by Scholastic and Bloomsbury, her publishers. On her website, JKRowling.com, J.K. Rowling announced yesterday that she had delivered the manuscript to her publishers.
In making the joint announcement, Barbara Marcus, President of Scholastic Children's Books in the United States, and Nigel Newton, Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing in Britain, said, "We are delighted to announce the publication date. J.K. Rowling has written a brilliant story that will dazzle her fans in a marvelous book that takes the series to yet greater heights. 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' delivers all the excitement and wonder of her best-selling previous Harry Potter novels."
In the fifth and most recent book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the last chapter, titled "The Second War Begins," started:
'In a brief statement Friday night, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has returned to this country and is active once more.
"It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord - well, you know who I mean - is alive among us again," said Fudge.'
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" takes up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at this point in the midst of the storm of this battle of good and evil.
The author has already said that the Half-Blood Prince is neither Harry nor Voldemort. And most importantly, the opening chapter of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" has been brewing in J.K. Rowling's mind for 13 years.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," J.K. Rowling's fifth Harry Potter book, was released on June 21, 2003, and was the fastest-selling book in history on the first weekend of its publication. All five Harry Potter books, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," as well as "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," have been number one bestsellers in the United States, Britain, and around the world.
Scholastic will publish "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" in hardcover under the Arthur A. Levine imprint with interior and cover art by Mary Grand Pre, who has illustrated the previous five books. The price will be $29.99.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, based on the fourth book, is due out in theaters on November 18, 2005, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, based on the fifth book, is eyeing a June, 2007 release date. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Heatherhobbit | | I scheduled my vacation for that week so that I can read it several times. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | You might want to pre-order your copy, it's not even released and it's already a bestseller.
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6th 'Harry Potter' book already a hot seller
LONDON - J.K. Rowling's latest Harry Potter book rocketed up the bestseller charts of online booksellers Tuesday, following the announcement that the new work will be released next summer, six months earlier than expected.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which had been scheduled for release in December 2005, will instead go on sale July 16, publishers announced Tuesday.
By Tuesday afternoon, the title held either first or second place on bestseller lists at Amazon's American and Canadian websites, as well as on the website of U.S. superstore Barnes & Noble. Soon after the publishers' announcements, online booksellers began offering the book for pre-order, often at a dramatic discount.
"Sales from the last Harry Potter book grossed as much as a major Hollywood movie in its first week of release," said Steve Riggio, CEO of Barnes & Noble, Inc. "We expect this next book in the series to make publishing history once again."
Raincoast Books, the Canadian publisher of the blockbuster series, called the upcoming release "the biggest publishing event of 2005."
"For J.K. Rowling's Canadian fans and for Canadian retailers, it looks like Christmas will be coming in July next year," said Raincoast CEO Allan MacDougall.
The British and American publishers of the series issued a joint statement: "J.K. Rowling has written a brilliant story that will dazzle her fans in a marvellous book that takes the series to yet greater heights" said Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in England and Scholastic Children's Books in the U.S.
Pregnant with her third child, the secretive Rowling had posted a message to her website in early December that led readers to believe the book's release was still far away.
"I have nothing noteworthy to report, because I have been spending nearly all my time sitting in front of my computer writing, rewriting and taking the occasional break to bang my head off the desk in frustration or else rub my hands together in fiendish glee (I think the latter has happened once)," she wrote.
However, on Monday, if visitors to the site answered three questions and solved three riddles in a special section, they were rewarded with Rowling's announcement about the release of Half-Blood Prince.
In the new posting, the 39-year-old British author said she had only "needed to tinker with the manuscript to my satisfaction and I am as happy as I have ever been with the end result. I only hope you feel it was worth the wait when you finally read it."
The previous instalment, the 870-page Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, came out in the summer of 2003.
Though longer and much darker than the previous four novels – following Rowling's intention to reflect Harry growing up – readers snapped up the book. Phoenix sold 5 million copies within 24 hours of publication. According to Bloomsbury, the Harry Potter titles have sold 250 million copies worldwide, with the books being offered in 62 different languages.
Rowling had said that another of her beloved characters – one she refused to identify – would die in the sixth book. Although she assured that it wouldn't be Harry himself, she has also been mysterious about whether the titular hero would survive the seventh and final book.
The fourth film instalment of the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is also slated for a 2005 release. Directed by Mike Newell, the first British director to tackle the films, Goblet of Fire will introduce actor Ralph Fiennes as the evil Lord Voldemort.
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Funkadelic!
Hopefully we'll get it here the same day. We did last time, but they didn't mention Taiwan by name  what's the deal with that? Can't they name EVERY country in the world's release date?  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | | Pre-order? That sucks. I don't have a credit card anymore. I chopped it up. I guess I will have to wait in line like everyone else. I seriously doubt there will be a shortage. After all, they know that it will sell millions of copies. They have time to be prepared. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Heatherhobbit | | I think part of the fun will be standing in the middle of the book store at midnight. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | | I bought the last one online with priority shipping. It still took 2 days to get here. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: MistyRainWater6 | | Oh boy...This is the first Harry Potter book I have had to wait for since I started reading them late. Looks like checking it out of the library will be out of the question with a bestseller as this  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | | Somehow I don't think Ron will let me go to Taiwan to get the new HP book. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Pfff... tell him I said he was a cheap-skate. A few grand for a new Harry Potter book, about 16 hours before you normally would have gotten it... bargain! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | | I know. It must be the time he would have to babysit the kids without me there to rescue him.  | | Reply To this Message
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and nobody present in the store, almost.
plus, provided we have the same release dates, we get it a day before you guys 