HP Editor Arthur Levine and Barbara Marcus, executive vice president of Scholastic, unveiled an official 30-day countdown clock today at the Scholastic store in NYC, and TLC was there. Stay tuned, because we’re working on our interview footage and pictures to bring you in a special report tonight. In the meantime check out a picture …read more!

It was reported today that Time Magazine will be featuring a new interview with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. In a column for The Boston Globe, the reporter mentions the two mainstream media interviews that JKR will be conducting for the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, along with the one she will …read more!

We’ve just received an update from NBC letting us know that Katie Couric’s interview with Jo Rowling will air on July 17 on Dateline and July 18 on Today. More details about Today’s HBP week as we go.

Amazon has announced that its preorders of HBP have soared past the half-million mark, all the way to 560,000. That’s more than one book for each minute in a year. (Find all versions from five different countries here at the Cauldron Shop). Source: BusinessWire.

We’ve received word from an NBC rep who assured us that the Rowling-Couric interview is tentatively scheduled Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday the week of July 11, though that may easily change. The interview is taking place today in Scotland and seems to be planned to air to go with a whole Harry Potter themed week …read more!

TLC was able to obtain a copy of the injunction granted to J.K. Rowling regarding disclosure of the contents of book six (read the intial story here); you can read the PDF here (but make sure you have Adobe Reader so you can open the document). The order is broader than the original newspaper articles …read more!

Barry Cunningham, publisher and managing director of Chicken House books, the founding publisher of Bloomsbury, and the man who finally took on Potter, talks to Fortune in the June 27 magazine for their article on decision-making: “When we started Bloomsbury Children’s Books in 1995, publishing was full of ‘issue books’ describing serious and important subjects …read more!

WB has confirmed to us the reports today that Daniel Radcliffe will star in December Boys, an independent film about four orphans who were born in the same month, growing up in 1960s Australia. The film is based on a novel by Michael Noonan. He will film right after GoF is released in November, before …read more!

Actor Gary Oldman is quoted briefly speaking about his role as Sirius Black in an interview posted on IGN. Mr.Oldman says that his part in the Goblet of Fire film is very small, noting: I’ll disappoint you because I’m just a tiny, tiny little part in the next one. I’m just embers in the fire. …read more!

The Sun announced yesterday that its cub reporter contest winner, Sian Brennan, gave her trip to meet with Jo to her sick twin sister, Zoe. Sian invented and drew the “groggle,” a creature who saves Harry’s life, and in a phone poll Sun readers chose him as their favorite. The twins are from Newtownards, Northern …read more!