English language OoP in German bookstores

[charisjulia]

Ethanol wrote:

>I'm from Germany, so I thought that I would miss the Big Day and
> would have to wait for my copy of OoP until whenever Amazon and the 
postal
> service felt like sending it.
> 
> But when I toured my home city on Monday, I learned that a couple of
> bookstores promise to sell copies of the English version on June 
21st
> (though disquietingly, the sales person added a silent "I hope" at 
the end
> of the sentence :( ).
> 
> Anyway, it might be interesting for others here to check out their 
local
> bookstores. The one in question was "Thalia", a book chain as well 
as
> "Bertelsmann Club" and "Weltbild Verlag".

Well, I live in Flanders and I've had my name down for the Booklovers 
party at the American Book Centre celebrating the release of the 
Order of the Phoenix for months. You can find a description of the 
events taking place here: 

http://www.abc.nl/

Sounds perfectly ghastly, but I'm going anyway. Of course I'm not 
going to actually read the book till well over a week later, what 
with exams and everything. . .

Anyway, if anybody lives in Flanders or the Netherlands do check it 
out. By the way, Ethanol, the sales person at my local ABC seemed to 
take it for granted that the book would be available in Belgium on 
the same date as the UK and US and couldn't see why I would expect 
otherwise. Said something about an international launching date, 
though that's the first and last time I've heard about that.

Charis Julia