Of Dragons and “Deathly Hallows” Audio Books

Jun 29, 2007

Posted by: SueTLC

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UK Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury have issued a press release about the audio book for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. As we told you previously, in the UK, the audio book was to be released for the first time in as the books for “Deathly Hallows,” and the publishers have listed some additional information about the disc (example the Listening time is 24 hours and 1 minute), as well as featuring a very intriguing new message from audio book narrator Stephen Fry. To hear this message, click here. You can also see a new photo of Jo and Stephen Fry, here in our galleries.

Some additional facts posted by Bloomsbury include:

*Listening time for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows audio edition is 24 hours and 1 minute

  • * The audio editions of the Harry Potter books have now sold over a million copies.
  • * Stephen Fry has spent a total of 38 days in the studio recording all seven Harry Potter books
  • * Stephen Fry has voices for over 170 characters from the books
  • * In the same time as it takes to listen to all seven audiobooks you could go to the moon, and still have nearly a day left over to look around, or listen to a Harry Potter book, once you got there.
  • * In the same time as it takes to listen to the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows audiobook, you could:
  • * Fly from London to Sydney, Australia
  • * Run the men’s 100 metres world record 8800 times
  • * Play 16 football matches
  • * Listen to Queen’s ‘It’s a kind of magic’ 330 times
  • * Watch The Wizard of Oz 14 times
  • As a reminder the publishers state again the book will be available simultaneously in the large print edition, the special gift edition, the audio edition, published jointly with HNP, and from the RNIB, the Braille and Talking Book editions. They also include the following info from Jo on the work done by Stephen Fry:

    Stephen Fry says that sometimes he finds clues to the kind of voice a character should have in JK Rowling’s writing or in the characters’ names: ‘Sometimes [there is] a turn of phrase that makes me think well that sounds like a Cockney or that’s an older character or thats a younger character…’

    JK Rowling describes Stephen’s reading as ‘though someone you know well is reading to you and that person happens to be talented at voices but [doesn’t] form a big barrier between the listener and the story.’ Stephen says about reading the Harry Potter books ‘It’s the perfect thing to read. If I was told I was going to have to do a series of big novels I might have thought at first maybe Trollope or the complete Jane Austen but I don’t think I would have got a tenth as much pleasure.’





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