Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, BOOK 6, publicationed date: July 16, 2005 |
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 Dec 21 2004, 03:57 PM
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 there's no excuse at all...  Group: Member Posts: 318 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,520  |
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QUOTE New Harry Potter book to be published July 16
Rowling tells fans she hopes 6th in series is ‘worth the wait’ J.K. Rowling announced Monday that she has completed the sixth Potter novel, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." The Associated Press Updated: 2:14 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2004 LONDON - Get ready for publishing’s ultimate blockbuster sequel: Harry Potter VI. Setting the stage for another round of midnight bookstore parties and marathon readings into the morning, the penultimate novel in J.K. Rowling’s mega-selling series, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” will go on sale 12:01 a.m. on July 16 in the United States, Britain and four other countries, publishers said Tuesday. “I know you all expected this to happen on Christmas Day, but I was sure that those of you who celebrate Christmas have better things to do on the day itself than fight your way into my study,” the British author wrote in a message posted on her Web site, “whereas those of you who DON’T celebrate Christmas would definitely prefer not to wait until the 25th.” Rowling, 39, noted that while she is pregnant with her third child, she has had the time “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 book will also be published July 16 in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. With the previous works available in 62 languages, many, many other countries are sure to follow. “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,” said a joint announcement by Nigel Newton, chief executive of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in England, and Barbara Marcus, president of Scholastic Children’s Books in the United States. The 2005 publishing date means the world will be spared the seemingly interminable three-year wait between Potter IV, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” and Potter V, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” which came out in summer 2003. Good news for book sellers The news should be celebrated by Rowling’s millions of fans and by the struggling publishing industry. Competition for sales began almost immediately, with Amazon.com and the superstore chains Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Borders Group, Inc. announcing 40 percent discounts on the book’s $29.99 suggested retail price. By Tuesday, “Half-Blood Prince” was already No. 1 on Barnes & Noble.com’s best seller list and was in the top 10 on Amazon.com. “Sales from the last Harry Potter book grossed as much as a major Hollywood movie in its first week of release,” Steve Riggio, chief executive officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc., said in a statement Tuesday. “We expect this next book in the series to make publishing history once again. We’ve already collected 500,000 e-mail requests from our customers waiting to be notified of the date of the next book so this announcement is very welcome news for readers everywhere.” The retail price is the same as for Potter V, even though Rowling has strongly hinted she will not approach the industrial-sized 870 pages of “Order of the Phoenix.” In an earlier message on her web site, she stated, “According to the plan for book six, it will be quite a bit shorter than ’Order of the Phoenix’. I am not going to swear on my children’s lives that that is going to be the case, but I am 99% certain of it.” Phenomenal popularity About 260 million copies of the fantasy series, which debuted in 1997, have sold worldwide, and “Order of the Phoenix” sold an astonishing 5 million copies in the U.S. alone within 24 hours of publication, generating as much money as the top Hollywood release of that weekend, “The Hulk.” Sales have remained phenomenal even as Rowling’s books have grown longer and darker, reflecting the boy wizard’s maturation into adolescence. The first three Potter books have been made into hit movies and inspired countless Potter paraphernalia, including candy, cakes, capes and toys. For months, Rowling has been revealing details of her new book, naming the titles of three chapters — Chapter 2: Spinners End; Chapter 6: Draco’s Detour; Chapter 14: Felix Felicis — and even confiding that one of her characters will not survive, although she refused to say who. Potter himself is safe, at least for now. Rowling has said her teenage hero will survive until the seventh and final book in the series, but has refused to say whether he will reach adulthood. Only recently, the book’s completion seemed far away. In a message posted Dec. 10, Rowling said she had 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).” |
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| *stephinika* |
Dec 21 2004, 04:14 PM
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aw man thats so long from now! i can't wait for it to come out.
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Dec 21 2004, 04:41 PM
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 RiKACHANtEL Group: Member Posts: 3,876 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 51,230 |
oh now i know how long it will be...good
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| *tweeak* |
Dec 21 2004, 05:20 PM
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amazingly, i hadnt heard that yet. i want it NOW
nooooooooo i may not be able to get it at midnight like i did the others because i think thats either during band camp or while im on vacation. hrmph *pout* |
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Dec 21 2004, 05:24 PM
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 ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,309 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 65,593 |
exactly how many harry potter books will there be -_-
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Dec 21 2004, 05:26 PM
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 Oh you'd be surprised Group: Member Posts: 2,406 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 7,886 |
how exciting
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Dec 21 2004, 05:27 PM
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 Yawn Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,530 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 65,772 |
yay sound good
but i swear if she kills off ron or somethan then im going to be so pissed lol
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| *tweeak* |
Dec 21 2004, 05:32 PM
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QUOTE(tungtwista @ Dec 21 2004, 5:24 PM) exactly how many harry potter books will there be -_- 7. where have you been? |
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Dec 21 2004, 05:36 PM
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 Day's Nearly Over Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,553 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 45,183 |
I can wait~!
Not! |
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Dec 21 2004, 05:58 PM
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 creepy heather Group: Official Member Posts: 4,208 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 41,580 |
*squeal*
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Dec 21 2004, 07:11 PM
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I almost had a heart attack when I'd read that she'd finished the book. And now that we know the release date... GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
I am so reserving a copy... I didn't reserve the last book and had to wait like a month before I could get one! July 16th couldn't come soon enough! |
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Dec 21 2004, 07:13 PM
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 Can't have the hand without the cock. Group: Member Posts: 2,481 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 50,622 |
Wow, it's still going? O.O
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Dec 21 2004, 07:21 PM
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they have to make 7 books
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Dec 21 2004, 07:35 PM
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 SQUASHBERRY. ;D Group: Member Posts: 440 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,612 |
Just think, only about 207 days from now!
 Whoo, I can't wait!
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Dec 21 2004, 08:13 PM
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 WWMD?! - i am from the age of BM 2 Group: Member Posts: 5,308 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,848 |
she needs to get her little butt moving.
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Dec 21 2004, 08:40 PM
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Brie Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 10,172 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 20,548 |
Oh em GEE. I can't wait! :D
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Dec 21 2004, 11:42 PM
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there's no excuse at all... Group: Member Posts: 318 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,520 |
QUOTE(tweeak @ Dec 21 2004, 4:21 PM) they have to make 7 books lol yep 7 is the minimum. |
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Dec 22 2004, 12:03 AM
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deng thats fast! the 6th book took wayyyy longer than the 7th book to write. hehe i better mark this on my calendar
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Dec 22 2004, 12:43 AM
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 hi. call me linda. Group: Official Member Posts: 8,187 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,475 |
ooh, i can't wait. i think i'm gonna pre-order it.
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Dec 22 2004, 12:59 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,191 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 23,660 |
:sighs: i can wait.. i waited for the fifth book.
yeah, i went to jkrowlings site and got that card with the message on it. with some help from my friends. =] |
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Dec 22 2004, 01:22 AM
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 I'm your worst nightmare... Group: Member Posts: 391 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 56,600 |
im gonna buy that book the second it comes out. i saw something on tv, and she said that she already has all the books finished. shes just waiting for the right time to publish the next ones
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Dec 22 2004, 01:49 AM
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^ i know what a biatch!!... damn her... so lazy!!!
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Dec 22 2004, 05:36 AM
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 Hi! I'm Dani :) Group: Member Posts: 5,637 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,369 |
aww i wish it would come out sooner! i cant wait to read it
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Dec 22 2004, 08:57 AM
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 say maydayism. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,447 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 26,344 |
I hope it's going to be on the same date (or even earlier =]) over here... but I don't think it's going to be a big chance *sigh*.
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Dec 22 2004, 10:15 AM
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yeah, last time i was going to get my friend in england to send me a copy as quickly as possible if it came out first over there, but luckily it didnt because i dont know how i would have paid him back
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