Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) Release Date - possible spoilers

[Geekyfanboy]

Well they just announced Book 7's release date for July 21st at midnight.

I am very excited but also sad that this will be the final book.

[Rico]

Nice!  Looking forward to some fun Harry Potter summer reading.

[keozen]

Yey Hey!

Can't wait myself, you just beat me to posting this myself!

[Darth Gaos]

I am with you Kenny...mixed feelings on this one.  Although maybe I will make a Harry Potter day of it.  Go see the movie that day then take my 2 oldest daughters to one of the local bookstores for the release party.

[Elizur]

Whew.  It's been a great long ride. 

I'm hoping that JK Rowling is like many authors who has a need to write;  that she'll come out with something else, Harry Potter wise or anything else. 

[Yeoman Mara]

Oh - I love Harry Potter.  Really excited about the next book!  :)

[comix]

I can't wait! seems like it has been forever.

[Chrystabel]

I was so excited about the release date this morning that I started a countdown on the whiteboard in my classroom.  170 days and counting!  LOL!  :taz

[Geekyfanboy]

That's great Chrystabel... LOL

[Geekyfanboy]

Rowling Sad At Potter's End

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling said on her official Web site that she is both heartbroken and euphoric about wrapping up the franchise with the long-awaited seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The book is due in bookstores on July 21.

"Even while I'm mourning, though, I feel an incredible sense of achievement," Rowling wrote. "I can hardly believe that I've finally written the ending I've been planning for so many years. I've never felt such a mixture of extreme emotions in my life, never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric."

Rowling added: "While each of the previous Potter books has strong claims on my affections, Deathly Hallows is my favorite, and that is the most wonderful way to finish the series."

[Geekyfanboy]

Harry Potter VII A Best-Seller

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final volume in J.K. Rowling's best-selling series, doesn't come out until July, but it is already topping the sales charts of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, the Associated Press reported. A deluxe edition, priced at $65, is number two, outselling the You diet book, Sen. Barack Obama and an Oprah Winfrey-endorsed memoir by Sidney Poitier.

Rowling announced last week that Deathly Hallows would come out July 21. The previous six books have sold more than 325 million copies in 64 languages and broken countless sales records. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, published in 2005, had an announced first U.S. printing of 10.8 million copies and sold 6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours.

[keozen]

Out of interest, what is the difference with the Deluxe edition?

[Geekyfanboy]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Publisher Scholastic Corp. said on Wednesday it would release a record-breaking 12 million copies for the first U.S. printing of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which hits stores on July 21.

The release of the seventh and final book in the popular series by British author        J.K. Rowling will be backed by a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign and is expected to be one of the biggest publishing events in recent years.

Speculation has run high that "Deathly Hallows" could mark the death of the boy wizard hero.

"Harry Potter" books have sold 325 million copies and have been translated into 64 languages. The series has spawned four feature films. A fifth film based on the fifth installment, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," will reach theaters a week ahead of the new book's arrival.

The first printing of "Deathly Hallows" breaks a record of 10.8 million copies of the sixth book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," in 2005.

That book sold 6.9 million in the first 24 hours, Scholastic said.

In the UK, it sold more than 2 million copies on the first day of release, making it the fastest-selling book of all time, according to the publisher.

[Geekyfanboy]

Final Potter book goes easy on the trees
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NEW YORK - The printing for the final Harry Potter book will not only be the biggest, but also the greenest.

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Scholastic Inc. announced Tuesday that it had agreed with the Rainforest Alliance, a conservation organization that works with the business community, on tightened environmental standards for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," coming out July 21 with a first printing of 12 million.

J.K. Rowling's seventh Potter book will be a hulking 784 pages, Scholastic said, a comparable length to the last couple of Potter releases.

Among the details of Tuesday's agreement:

_The paper used will contain "a minimum of 30 percent post-consumer waste (pcw) fiber."

_Nearly two-thirds of the 16,700 tons of paper will be approved by the Forest Stewardship Council, an international organization with a mission to "promote environmentally responsible, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world's forests."

_A "deluxe" edition of the new book, which has a first printing of 100,000, will be printed on paper that contains "100 percent post-consumer waste fiber."

"We applaud Scholastic's progressive and bold commitment to support responsible forestry practices by buying FSC certified and recycled papers," Liza Murphy, senior marketing manager in the Rainforest Alliance's sustainable forestry program, said in a statement issued by Scholastic.

In 2005, when "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" came out, Greenpeace and other environmental groups complained that Scholastic wasn't using enough recycled paper and urged consumers to buy copies from the Canadian publisher, Raincoast Books.

Scholastic would not say at the time how much recycled paper it used, but said it did not use paper from ancient or endangered forests. Sales, apparently, were not affected: "Half-Blood Prince" sold 6.9 million copies in the first 24 hours.

On Tuesday, Greenpeace issued a statement praising the new standards for Potter 7 and noting that in "Europe and Canada, the past several editions of the Harry Potter series have been printed on forest friendly paper, per the wishes of J.K. Rowling."

"Many of the Harry Potter fans worldwide have been able to enjoy the books on FSC-certified paper, and it's great news that Ms. Rowling's American readers can enjoy the final installment of Harry Potter while playing a part in responsible forest management," said Greenpeace forest campaign coordinator Scott Paul.

[Geekyfanboy]

Here is the US version of the Front Cover of the final Seventh Harry Potter book. You can click on the link and see the back of the book and both UK versions of the book.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/#article:9653

The UK editions have summaries; the inside flap reads: "Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety , and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him

In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectactular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, reread and read again."

And on the back of the adult edition:
"Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing, if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him with?"


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