Details of audio release...

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No: HPFGUIDX C2702
From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Details of audio release...
Date: 6/23/00 5:37 pm  (ET)

News from Yahoo...

"An audio version of the fourth Harry Potter book is being released at
the same time as the print edition, at 12:01 a.m. on July 8.

The 752-page installment of the boy wizard's adventures will be available
as a set of 17 CDs
 or 12 cassettes with a listening time of 20.5 hours."

"...about 180,000 copies would being issued in the first release - and
that one million copies of the audiobooks would available by the end of
the year. The latter figure also includes recordings of the first three
books in the Harry Potter series."

"Actor Jim Dale, who narrated the earlier audiobooks, also reads the
fourth one, creating more than 125 voices for different characters."

Neil