UK publisher Bloomsbury has announced that the reading of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by author J. K. Rowling taking place at the Natural History Museum will be streamed LIVEonline via the Bloomsbury website at midnight on July 21st.
Bloomsbury Publishing is delighted to announce that now everyone will be able to hear J K Rowling read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in a live webstream from the Natural History Museum in London at the precise moment it is published – 12.01am BST on Saturday 21st July 2007.
Ten years after publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone the publication of this, the final book in the series, returns to where it all began: with a book, the author and her readers.
The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows launch event is completely oversubscribed and no further tickets will be issued but Bloomsbury encourages fans to log on to the webstream to join in the experience. The streaming will be available for a further two weeks at www.bloomsbury.com.
The publisher also announced a live web chat with J. K. Rowling to be held the following week on July 30th from 2-3.00pm BST. Fans may submit their questions via the Bloomsbury site beginning one week before the event, or during the live webcast.
Is that streaming at midnight everywhere or just midnight in Britain. Cause if it’s Britain, that’s giving us (well, if you live in my time zone – Toronto-ish) a 5 hour early preview of the book! She’d be reading it Midnight there, but it would be 7pm here…
Maven Cree-where are you? im confused-it is british time though. If your in america do you get it at 12:01 british time or do you have to wait until 12:01 american time? if so thats really awful!! ill be finished the book before you even get it!! soo unfair!
I will be in London at midnight July 21st. So I can’t hear the webcast. Oh well, I will have the book in my hands soon after midnight July 21st, I hope! :)
I’m in Hamilton Ontario Canada. Other side of thelake from Toronto. We’re 5 hours behind BST. So if she’s reading it BST we get to hear it 5 hours before the book comes out here.
I’m torn. I don’t know. Do I listen, or do I wait. If she’s reading from the begining, i might listen. I hope TLC keeps a copy for us to listen to later though, or to download.
You’re going to finish it in 5 hours?! Not me. I’m going to stretch it out and savour every second. I won’t stop reading it, I’ll just take time to absorb every image, every joke, every everything. Last time we’ll get to. No time for speed reading.
Yea im reviewing the book so ill be speed-reading…then sleeping…then re-reading slowly!! I too will miss the reading because of being in London but i cant wait for the webchat!!
I’ll already be waiting in the queue for book 7 at this point, but the reading sounds amazing. I’ll definitely have to watch the video at a later date (I mean, I am sure they’ll have some video at a later point.)
But the web chat the following is a brilliant idea! I’ll definitely be watching that, even if it happens to be when I am work, EST.
YEAH! However, is that midnight Britain, or elsewhere? Living in the Pacific Northwest, that would be four or five o’clock for me! I wonder what chapter she’ll read…she usually does one from the beginning.
Courtney yes its british midnight.
Yea last time it was from the Joke Shop-Dracos Detour chapter! I hope she reads from chapter 1-anywhere else wont make complete sense surely….
"So you have chosen to study Divination, the most difficult of all magical arts. I must warn you at the outset that if you do not have the Sight, there is very little I will be able to teach you. Books can take you only so far in this field...."
isnt it fantastic!!! any unanswered book 7 questions answered a week later!!!!