Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:12:30 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Don't Read The New Harry Potter ...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

from Shelf Awareness:

The audiobook version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be
unabridged, clock in at more than 21 hours, be priced at $79.95, and
take up 17 CDs and 12 cassettes.

Random House's Listening Library, which has North American audio
rights, is publishing the title simultaneously with the hardcover on
Saturday, July 21. Books on Tape, also a division of the Random House
Audio Publishing Group, will distribute the title in the library and
educational markets.

Jim Dale, who narrated the audios of the first six Harry Potter titles,
is recording this one, too. (Listening Library notes that besides
winning a Grammy and several Audies, Dale is a member of the Order of
the British Empire, courtesy of Queen Elizabeth II.) There are over five
million copies of the first six Harry Potter titles in print in
Listening Library editions.