Alley-Oop

catorman catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk
Fri May 10 11:13:17 UTC 2002


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "davewitley" <dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Martin Hooper wrote:
> > http://msn.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?
> in_review_id=579852
> > 
> > Article on the new book...
>  
> It sounds as if Bloomsbury have made another pronouncement, then.  
> Their website has also changed slightly, to wording similar to that 
> of their spokesman in the article:
> 
> "When will the fifth book be published?
> JK Rowling is happily writing Harry Potter and the Order of the 
> Phoenix and we anticipate that we will be publishing later this 
year."
> 
> (from their FAQ, General Queries:
> http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/harrypotter/muggles/faq/faq.asp?
> pageNo=15
> 
> or go to 
> http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/harrypotter/muggles_index.html
> 
> and click on F.A.Q. then General Queries)
> 
> Until recently it something like: "In an ideal world we would 
> announce a date in early autumn 2002, but we have to wait and see"
> 
> This feels like a further delay, but just possibly slightly 
increased 
> confidence that it really will be out this year.
> 
> David

I'm still unsure why some of the major bookstores in the UK are 
advertising the new book if they haven't been given official 
information on a release date, or at least month.  In response to my 
last post on the subject, Kathryn said that a sales assistant in her 
local Waterstones said that having the pre-order forms out 
was "daft."  This is the response I got last week, but it seems that 
in the meantime (ie, a couple of days ago) this story has changed, 
and they are being advised by Head Office to say July.

I honestly think that they're all playing with us.  I'm hoping that 
they know exactly when it is going to be out, but have decided to 
have a short a time as possible between announcement and actual 
release date.  Why, I don't know, but the information currently 
flying around just doesn't make sense.

Catherine, who is living in hope





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