Book Five Publishing Date - Bad News, Old News?

[mgrantwich at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 23947

Not sure if this means anything but apparently JKR wrote a letter to 
the editor of The Scotsman regarding the publishing date of Book 
Five.  Here are the relevant paragraphs:
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LONDON (AP) - Fans of Harry Potter who've come to expect an annual 
dose of the boy wizard will have to wait a little longer for the 
fifth volume of his adventures - but that's not because the author 
has writer's block. 

"There is no writer's block - on the contrary, I am writing away very 
happily," said J.K. Rowling in a letter published Thursday in The 
Scotsman newspaper.... 

No date has been set for the publication of book five, and The 
Scotsman suggested on Wednesday that the 35-year-old author was 
suffering from creative block. 

"As I, my publishers and my agent have stated since the publication 
of `Goblet Of Fire' in July 2000, there was never any intention of 
publishing the fifth Harry Potter book in 2001, nor has any deadline 
ever been set for the delivery of the manuscript," Rowling wrote. 
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It's got to be next year, right?