[HPforGrownups] Re: We have a release date

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 164511

Call them guesses or theories, it doesn't really matter . What counts is
that the book is coming out. Usually you will get the correct answer if you
follow the money trail. I doubt that the sales of book seven will be
affected
by it coming out a week after the release of movie 5. The opposite is not
true. Depending on events that occur in book seven many people could
potentially be turned off and not have an interest in seeing any more of the
movies.

Just a guess, but that is all most of the comments on this site are.
Financially, it makes sense to let the movie come out first although I would
have
expected a longer gap between the two. The movie will help sell the book,
the
book might have unsold the movie.

Neil
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Jeremiah:

Neil wrote: "What counts is
that the book is coming out."

jeremiah: YES! "hmm hmm hmm ... Humming to myself... hmm hmm hmm.... happy,
happy book release....la, la, laaaaaa... la, la, laaaaaa"

Absolutely. In fact, it may still effect future movies to a degree. If Harry
is dead at the end of DH then there will be readers who won't want to see it
on the screen. It is true that there would be an adverse effect if DH were
to be released before OotP debuts.

bu, keeping with the "release date" thingy... There is another board that
has HP posts and some guy said that July 21 was significant because that was
the release date for PP/SS. Not true, but very, very close, Amazon.co.uk has
posted the origional release date as July 26, 1997. (ok, I'm American and
even though I'm talking about a UK site I still am compelled to use the
American system for writing dates. LOL).

So, the date: is it really about the money? I don't know. I think she could
have released the book the same weekend and there would have been an inner
battle with fans that would go something like:

"Stand in line and buy the book or stand in line to see the movie... movie,
book, movie, book. Why can't they have a 2 am showing! Oh, the turmoil!"

Well, that's the scene in my head.

I do, however thin that there was a mid-summer relase "concept" which would
play to students and adluts going on vacation for the summer. I also think
it plays to the movie and won't bump the hype but heighten it. And I
remember that HBP was released the same weekend as ComicCon... since I had
the book mailed to me I had a good night's rest while others who pulled an
all-nighter were cranked on caffein and walking around like twithy zombies
mumbling things like "bezoars are cool" and "Ginny... heh heh... Ginny and
Harry... heh heh..." It made for avaer interresting Con. But I'm sure that
Sectus and ComiCon have nothing to do with a publisher's date. While a ton
of fans will be effectd it is in a smaller geographic region and as much as
I'd love to go to Sectus I truely can't afford it. So, I would htink it's
not a major factor to the release date. Same with ComicCon, however,
Scholastic (the US publisher) had a small booth but soem rockin' freebies...
Plus some pretty keen bookmarks. Did anyone go to that Con who can recall if
there was a midnight release at the site? I want to say there was but I
can't remember. I do know they raffled off free copies of the book.
Anyhoo... I hope they have cool stuff this year seeing as ComicCon is the
weekend after the release.


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