PUBLISHING NEWS on OOTP

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Hi,
   For what it's worth, the March 2002 edition of "Locus:  the 
Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field" contains the following 
information:
   - p. 72:  "Lest we forget, Scholastic still has not signed J.K. 
Rowling for the fifth Harry Potter book.  Barbara Marcus, president 
of the Scholastic Children's Book Group, visited Rowling's agent 
during a December 2001 trip to the UK, who told her that if asked, 
Scholastic should continue to say it is Rowling's US publisher."

   - p. 73:  "In the meantime, Scholastic will release the paperback 
edition of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" on Harry's birthday, 
July 31, 2002, with an initial print run of 2.5 million copies, 
bringing the total of Harry Potter books in print to 65 million."

   - p. 39 (in the section covering forthcoming books through 
Dec '02):  
     "ROWLING, J.K.
      Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Scholastic/Levine, 
Aug 2002 (ya, hc)"

          ya - stands for young adult
          hc - stands for hardcover

                             Aloha,
                             Cathy
                             (back to lurking, & reading digests and 
fanfic)