Simultaneous Worldwide Publication?

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 85325

It looks like more than one person has commented in this post but I 
could not tell who wrote what and snipped what.  

I think:
"Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> > Currently there is a thread 'What if Harry dies?', and an aspect 
of> this has been the speculation that if word got out of Harry's 
death  > in the last book, people would refuse to buy it, and the 
publishers would refuse to print it.

> > Readers refuse to buy-
> > I don't think that is true. 
> (snip) 


Now me?
Didn't we have Simultaneous English speaking worldwide publication 
for book 5?

There is no way the readers would refuse to buy any of the books in 
the series even if Harry dies.  The trouble would be keeping it a 
secret.  As soon as the news breaks it will be all over the press.

To give credit to the fans though, not one person I know gave away 
the secret of who dies in Book 4 back in 2000 or in book 5 this 
year.  I believe we all love the sags so much that we willingly keep 
the secret so as not to spoil for the rest.

The press is a very different matter. Book 5's death was all over the 
internet and the New York news papers.  (I refused to log on or pick 
up a paper until I finished the book.) I believe a paper in Canada 
actually printed an obituary and published it on Sat morning. Talk 
about spilling the beans. 

Not much we can do about it though. 
Mandy