The Release Date is July 21st!

[Caius Marcius]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "entropymail" <entropymail at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Well, it's official. The release date will be July 21, 2007. I've
> already pre-ordered from Barnes and Noble!
> 
>

I just went through TLC's archives to see when the major milestones 
occurred on the way to HBP's release date. This should give us a 
rough timetable for us to be anticipating similar milestones for DH

12/21/04 - HBP to be released on 7/16/05

12/22/04 - HBP will be shorter than OOP, have less than 38 chapters

1/24/05	- HBP will have 672 pages

2/11/05	- British edition of HBP will have 608 pages

3/8/05 	- Cover art for the Scholastic book debuts on the Today show –
 the Bloomsbury cover also becomes available 

4/28/05	 - Announcement that Jim Dale's audio version would go on 
sale concurrent with the book

5/11/05	- Deluxe high-resolution image of cover becomes available 

5/13/05	- JKR announces on her website her plans for 7/16/05 (reading 
at an Edinburgh book store, etc)

6/05/05	- Scholastic announces that 10.8 million copies of HBP have 
been printed, and will soon be shipped to distributors

06/09/05 - JKR granted injunction against those trying to  disclose 
HBP contents before publication (rumors circulate that Dumbledore 
dies in Book Six)

07/08/05 - Back cover of Scholastic edition becomes available

07/13/05 - Entire Scholastic jacket cover made available
 
    - CMC