Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:21:10 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] More Potter news...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

from a publishing newsletter called "Shelf-Awareness":

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released at 12:01 a.m. on
Saturday, July 21 (eight days after the release of the film version of
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix). Besides the $34.99
hardcover, Scholastic will offer a deluxe edition for $65 and a
reinforced library edition for $39.99. Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows is being released under the Arthur A. Levine imprint and will
have cover art by Mary GrandPre.

Within minutes of the Scholastic announcement, B&N, Borders and Amazon
announced that they had begun accepting pre-publication orders for the
book at steep discounts. B&N is offering the book for $20.99--40%
off--and B&N Members can receive it for $18.89, 46% off. Borders is
offering the book for 46% off. For its part, Amazon is offering the
hardcover for 46% and the deluxe edition for 40% off. In case the price
bloodbath escalates, Amazon and Borders guarantee all customers will
receive the lowest price offered by the sellers between the order and
the release date. Yesterday the book was the No. 1 title on all three
Web sites.

When the last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince, was released on July 16, 2005, 6.9 million copies were sold the
first day. (About 1.5 million of those sales came from Amazon advance
orders.) Some 120 million copies of the six Harry Potter titles are in
print in the U.S. About 325 million copies have been sold worldwide.