[HPforGrownups] OotP not to be in paperback???

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No: HPFGUIDX 57303

mmemalkin recently mentioned:
>I was in a Border's Bookstore today and was told by the clerk that
>books 5-7 will never be issued in paperback, and that the seventh
>book will be issued only as part of a boxed set.  I find all that
>very hard to believe, but wondered what anyone else has heard?

From: Kriselda Jarnsaxa
I've not heard anything, but one of the reasons that books come out in
paperback is because they're much cheaper to produce, and sell considerably
more copies than the hardback copy does.  I can't imagine that any
publisher would want to cut into the potential market for a book like OoP
or the other HP books by refusing to publish them in paperback, nor does it
seem likely that they'd release book 7 ONLY as part of a boxed set. <snip>

----Me----
I have several authors that I like to read.  The pattern that I have noticed
is that when the next book of a series is due to come out in hardback,  the
most current one will be released in paperback before the new one hits the
shelves.  I think it helps increase the sales of both books.  I know there
have been at least a couple of times when I waited for the paperback, and
then liked it so well, I *had* to buy the next one, even if it was hardback.
Plus, I don't know about Bloomsbury, but Scholastic does a lot of book fairs
at schools - they came to the elementary school I taught at every year.
Nearly all of the books they brought were paperback.  I agree with
Kriselda - they are not going to want to lose that market, though it may be
a while before the paperback edition is released.

~Cathy~