Scholastic HBP Ad: "You'll Find Out July 16!"
Reader DLW has sent us scans of a Scholastic ad for HBP teasing us about finding out who the HBP is. Thanks DLW!
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For further discussion of the covers and the interview...
...visit the threads on our forum, where discussions are already heating up. The threads in question are in the Daily Prophet Section.
Royal Tidings: Cover Art for HBP in the News
With the release today of the book covers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, some media sources have posted stories about this. MSNBC has this article about artist Mary GrandPre and her design work for the American version of Book 6.
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HP Editor on Today Show
Arthur Levine of Scholastic spoke on the Today Show just now, and released a few small tidibts about the book. Click below to read, and thanks to the reader who listed them!
Update: You can also see videos here, thanks to Page from DanRadcliffe.co.uk. Thanks Page!
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ON TLC: High-Res HBP Covers
We have the high-res Scholastic cover right here!
Important Note: These images as presented on Leaky are the highest res available legally. The image must be smaller than the size of the acutal book - if it's not others can print the cover themselves. Out of respect for the people making this book we have downsizedContinued...
Half-Blood Prince Artwork Revealed on NBC; British Cover on Bloomsbury
The cover for Scholastic (American edition) versions of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was revealed today on the Today show; it will be shown again at 9 a.m. We expect good quality pictures soon but from what we saw, the art is green-toned and appears to show Harry andContinued...
HBP Cover to Debut on the Today Show
Katie Couric just announced that on today's Today show on NBC, she will be unveiling the cover for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Stay tuned! And if you are awake and proficient at screencaps...please let us know!
Bloomsbury.com Updates
Bloomsbury.com has been updated now with a new poster for download that reminds us to set our alarms for the Half-Blood Prince release. A change has also been made to their countdown calendar with a special mark on March 11th, which is RED NOSE DAY. In conjunction with that day, Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) will be performingContinued...
Confirmed to TLC: HBP Synopsis False, Composed By Catalog Publishers
The HBP snippet that's been circulating has been confirmed to TLC by the publishers of the catalog in which it appeared as completely unofficial and culled from fan sites.
In an email, Publishers Quality Library Service said: "Scholastic has provided us with no facts aboutContinued...
Mini-HBP Synopsis Circulating
We are aware that a snippet about HBP has been posted on MuggleNet andis making the rounds, purportedly from a catalog called Publishers Quality Library Service (which is a real catalog, just not the type of publication first news of the book is expected to show up in - for OotP it was in an actual Scholastic product,Continued...
HBP to be Forest-Friendly, Greenpeace reports
Greenpeace is reporting that they recently asked Bloomsbury, UK publisher of the Harry Potter books, to print HBP on 100 percent "ancient forest friendly paper", which includes recyled fibre, with any non-recyled content coming from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) pulp. Greenpeace writesContinued...
Scholastic.com: New HBP Poster, Updated Poll
Scholastic. com has updated their Harry Potter section with a new unique poster for the Half-Blood Prince book. It features a montage of all the five previous book covers by Mary GrandPre, and has a picture of Dobby in the section with the title and release date for book 6. You can click here to printContinued...
Amazon.co.uk Book Six Notification Glitch
A while ago Amazon.com had a glitch in which users subscribed to be notified when HBPwent on sale got an email suggesting the book would be very delayed; the company later apologized in a very funny and Potteresque way.
It seems the same happened with Amazon.co.uk today - readers have been getting the exactContinued...
UK Edition of Half-Blood Prince: 608 Pages
The UK edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been confirmed as being 608 pages in length. Andy, from Harry Potter Fan Zone, wrote to let us know that they confirmed the length of the new Potter book with Bloomsbury, after seeing this scan of an order form for the book, which was orginallyContinued...
Half-Blood Prince Best Seller on Amazon.com
Amazon.com has announced that over 100,000 copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince have been pre-ordered. A UK Amazon spokesperson was quoted as saying "Our customers are clearly incredibly excited about the sixth Harry Potter book and we're thrilled more than 100,000 of them haveContinued...