Scholastic has a fun thing up now on their Harry Potter website. There is a magnifying glass that you can use to get a closer look at the entire cover for the Deluxe Edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Check it out!

The Baltimore Sun has written a very good profile about the editor of the US editions of the Harry Potter books, Arthur Levine. The story of how he bought the U.S. rights to the books for quite a bargin is mentioned, but the items of interest are about his working relationship with author JKRowling of …read more!

Each day in our forum, we have been posting a special new poll of the day until release day. Today, it was this editor’s turn, and thus we have a silly David Letterman style poll of “Top Ten Things You Want to see in Book 6“…err maybe 😉 Enjoy! Yesterday’s poll of where Harry Should …read more!

Forbes.com has a set of three Harry Potter-themed articles in their current issue. Harry Potter And The Vanishing Brand Magic explores forecasting and sales issues at Scholastic, Wizard Rock profiles Harry & the Potters, and links to one of their songs, and Will The Real Harry Potter Stand Up profiles a Washington attorney named Harold …read more!

UK Potter publishers Bloomsbury have just announced their plans to post on their website video and still photos from the midnight Half-Blood Prince release party in Edinburgh. Still photos from the event will be posted on the Bloomsbury Harry Potter website at 9am Saturday morning. They will also post two very short video clips from …read more!

With the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince so close now, the USA Today newspaper has a feature section up all about the boy wizard and the books. There are numerous articles included in this feature, which you can see here. Our own managing editor Melissa Anelli was interviewed about the hidden clues …read more!

The Ap is reporting this morning that two men in Indianapolis bought copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince already. Tim Meyer, 33, and Andrew Rauscher, 25, told The Indianapolis Star they purchased the books at a downtown store on Monday. They declined to provide the store’s name because they are frequent customers. “I …read more!

Bloomsbury has just released the back cover of the U.K. Children’s Edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince along with the text summary. Check it out here! ( Spoiler caution )

Philip let us know that the London Evening Standard newspaper carried a report today (July 13) on all the victims of last week’s outrage (those confirmed dead and those who are still missing) and in its tribute to Carrie, aged 24, said that on the night before the terror attacks Carrie “interrupted her father’s painstaking …read more!

Hello everyone! I am thrilled to pass on this announcement from our very own Nick Rhein, administrator of the Leaky Lounge: We are pleased to announce the formation of reading-and-discussion groups for HBP at Leaky Lounge. These groups will be as custom-tailored as possible to individuals’ reading styles and discussion styles, with many options, such …read more!