[HPFGU-OTChatter] Will there be an announcement for Book 5 before 2003?

[Riet Strijker]

Hi all,
As I do have a subscription to Publishers weekly ( and daily) I thought I
had to share this with you all.

>From Publishers weekly:

"Waiting for Harry V? Keep Waiting - Pub Says Summer At Least

After some speculation that Harry Potter V could come out in the
spring, Scholastic now says that it does not expect HP and the Order
of the Phoenix to be released before its next fiscal year, which
begins June 1. The publisher has still not received the manuscript
from author J.K. Rowling and company spokesperson Judy Corman said it
will take five to six months to prepare the text for publication.

Although Scholastic does say it expects to receive the manuscript
soon, it does not plan to rush the book into print. "We have to go
through the editing process, we need a cover design, it just seems
likely that it won’t be published until the next fiscal year," Corman
says.

The Potter juggernaut has been showing some cracks recently
(relatively speaking). Potter sales this past quarter were  $25
million, down by $20 million from last year's second quarter. While
Potter sales last November enjoyed a boost from the release of the
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone movie, Scholastic did not see a
similar lift for Potter sales when Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets movie came out last month, resulting in lower-than-anticipated sales
and higher returns.-Jim Milliot"



 Riet
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From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Date: zondag 22 december 2002 08:32:43
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Will there be an announcement for Book 5 before
2003?
 
I know everyone's on pins and needles waiting for news on OotP, and
must be sick of everyone asking when it's going to be out, so let me
take a slighly different tack.

Back around the time when the CoS movie was premiering, I recall
reading a short interview with JKR on BBC Newsround, in which she
revealed that there would be 38 chapters, and she needed time for
tweaking the book-essentially stating that she's done but wanted to
fine-tune it.  I think I even remember something about it taking some
weeks to do so.  Now, the tweaking part I wasn't too excited about-I
vaguely recall similar comments around the August-September timeframe,
so to me it sounded like more of the same.  But the revelation of the
number of chapters and the "weeks" portion (if I'm not totally
dreaming up this whole thing) made me think that we might get an
announcement that she's handed in her manuscript before the end of the
year.  Does anyone have any thoughts on the likelihood of such an
announcement?  Even if she did turn in the manuscript to the publisher
for editing and whatnot, would they even publicly release that
information?

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