Slate’s Book Club has a week-long discussion of Book V this week. Here is todays.

Venus Williams had this to say when asked if she’d buy Book V: “No, I didn’t. I don’t know if I’m going to. I might be a little old now.” “I’m 23, I’ve got to really focus on things that are really going to enrich my life,” she said.

The Chronicle’s David Kipen says Book V is nothing more than “900 pages” of “stale familiarity”.

Reviewer Michael Atkinson has an interesting take on Book V that this editor can only describe as….overly bombastic.

In order to keep up with demand, Scholastic has ordered yet another print run of Book V to include about 800,000 more copies.

Elite book reviewer Michiko Kakutani raved about OotP (on the front page of the newspaper no less): A considerably darker, more psychological book than its predecessors, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” occupies the same emotional and storytelling place in the Potter series as “The Empire Strikes Back” held in the first “Star …read more!

We knew it would happen but here are the numbers anyway – 5 million print sold in a weekend, hundreds of thousands elsewhere – Potter has broken every publishing record in existence, and become the fastest-selling commodity anywhere.

Welcome to Post-OotP fandom, everyone. We’re back and running but a little off-kilter, as we’re sure are most of you. I will post more thoughts on my own site at a later time, but I have just this to say: JKR, you brilliant, mad, crazy, terrible, sadistic woman. We love you still, even after what …read more!

Despite having the biggest one-day sale of a book in history, Forbes reports that Scholastic’s shares fell today.

The Associated Press and USA Today are also being considered by Scholastic for legal action for printing a review with spoilers prior to the embargo being released.