[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: HBP down under (moved from main list)

[Heidi Tandy]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 8:43 am, storm wrote:
>
> I thought that it was released at the same moment all over the world.
>
It isn't, much to the chagrin of those of us in the US, and especially 
those of us who're on the west coast that day, as I will be. It's 
released at midnight UK time in the UK and in al points east. Then when 
it gets to be midnight in North America, it starts to get released at 
midnight in bookstores in that time zone only. So if you're in LA, you 
get it I think 9 hours after the Londoners.

I've asked Scholastic and Raincoast if it could change to midnight 
eastern time and they said the PR value of having the midnight releases, 
combined with the fun kids have in staying up late, is why they do it.

Heidi