HBP printing

[staceymateo]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dudemom_2000" 
<dudemom_2000 at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Joshua Moses
> > <jmoses22002 at y...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > --- corvus_three <corvus_three at y...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I was talking to my brother-in-law the other day. 
> > > > His mom, who works for Scholastic, told him that HBP is 
> already being printed and boxed and stored under tight security.
> > > >  
> > > > I don't know how reliable this is, but I thought I would 
share.
> > > >  
> > > > Corvus 3
> > 
> > 
> > > Joshua:
> > >  
> > >   I think that is how unfounded rumors start.
> > > 
> > 
> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > Sorry, but I have to side with Joshua on this.
> > 
> > If they were really that close to release of the book they would 
> have the marketing and media machines running at full speed. In 
> addition, if they books are already being printed and warehoused, 
> they would have published a release date, which they haven't.
> > 
> > I'm guessing the release date will be posted in late spring for a
> > release in the Fall/Autumn of next year, although I will gladly 
> take it sooner than that.
> > 
> > Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)
> 
> *****\(@@)/*****
> Ditto here on Joshua and bboyminn's comments! NO ONE'S security is 
> that good that a book this awaited could be printed and stored 
> without someone having blabbed by now! Remember the last book and 
> all the various leaks and ultimately copies being found before the 
> book was issued. I think we will have more of the same with this 
> book.
> 
> Dudemom_2000
> 
> *****\(@@)/*****

Stacey:
Also, by the time that the books were being printed for OotP and the 
missing copies etc., the release date had already been announced.  

I don't think that the book will show up in the Fall/Autumn 2005 
though.  The HP maketing machine will already be in full swing for 
GoF-the movie.  This will either move the book release up to Summer-
ish 2005 or Spring/Summer 2006.  Marketing tends to want to keep 
things fresh every 6 months, so interested  folks don't get 
overwhelmed with too much at once (book and movie around the same 
time).  One of my favorite authors told an Q&A group once that her 
publisher tends to hold onto her things and release every 3-4 months 
(she writes quite a bit and has a huge backlist to re-release every 
few years) to keep interest and dollars flowing for "new" things.  
Also, the GoF-the DVD will be releasing around Spring/Summer 2006, so 
that would make me think we are looking at a Summer 2005 release.  
Any longer than that without "new" HP could place the franchise in 
trouble.  OotP is out in paperback, paperbacks of previous books tend 
to hit the market about 6-8 months prior to release of new 
hardbacks.  GoF paperback was released August/September 2002 and OotP 
followed with a June 2003 release.  If that calendar is followed, we 
could be seeing HP and the HBP June 2005.

Stacey