HP5 and book awards

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 12807

Someone wrote: "Anyone know when it's coming out? I've heard a lot of
'Nov.2001' and also a lot of 'sometime in 2002.' My theory is it'll be
released in the UK in Nov. and over here (I hope!) in early 2002, like
January."
Doreen replied: "NO! NO! NO! I can not sit still knowing that all of you
will be reading it in November and I will have to wait until January... that
is just not fair!
Doreen sending extra money to Neil to reserve her copy..."

I would very much doubt they would do this. If they were to do different UK
and US release dates then a large number of Americans would buy the UK
version (possibly from some online companies) instead of waiting for the US
copy to be released. I would guess that all the future books will have
simultaneous release dates for English language versions (i.e. UK, US,
Canada, Australia and some others). Having said al this I live in the UK, so
am not concerned, as we will get the book first anyway.


>From BBC online news
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1184000/1184692.stm)
talking about the British Book Awards: "The book of the year award went to
Parsons, whose semi-autobiographical Man And Boy, about a father-and-son
relationship, was one of the surprise successes of last year.
JK Rowling had to make do with an award for best marketing campaign and best
publisher for Bloomsbury.
The latest Harry Potter story, The Goblet of Fire, was also beaten to the
best children's book award by Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass.
Terry Pratchett for services to bookselling"

How did they get an award for best marketing campaign? They did practically
nothing and let word of mouth (the way that most of the good children's
books, in the UK, become famous at the moment) and media hype do all the
work. It must have been one of the easiest things in the world to do. We
have a product that has been topping the bestsellers list for three months
on pre sales alone and everyone wants it. That is something that sure needed
a decent marketing campaign!

Jo, or Bloomsbury, did not win anything else to my knowledge, but I was
pleased that Terry Pratchett (one of my favourite authors) and Tony Parsons
(his book, Man and Boy, is very good) got some recognition.
How The Amber Spyglass won the children's award I will never know. My
thoughts on that book are probably best reserved for a different list as it
is way OT for here and we now have the HpforGU OT Chatter group, available
at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter, for that kind of thing I
should probably do it their, if anywhere.



Simon (still writing about Harry, but being delayed by fanfic writers!)
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