Gentle Giant Studios, who make collectable models of characters from television shows and motion pictures such as Star Wars and The Simpsons, have now added the Harry Potter films to their product lines. Two new mini-busts from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban have been added: this one of Harry Potter, and this, of …read more!

Barnes & Noble booksellers sent out a press release today announcing that their stores are to hold parties for the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Some 660 stores will be staying open late and hosting parties throughout the US. They also announced that Jim Dale, narrator of the Scholastic version of …read more!

We’re getting more and more e-mails on this, so hopefully this will put some speculation to rest: We did not yet announce the results of our editor search – we had planned to have done so by now but a certain lady whose name we won’t mention (but whose initials are JKR :), has made …read more!

This is London is reporting (based on a story in The Sun) that the betting on character deaths in HBP has skewed so far to one character in the town where the book is being printed that there are rumors the book has been leaked. (There is also similar conversation that the same character is …read more!

Arthur Levine , editor of the Harry Potter books for Scholastic, was interviewed this morning on CNN. Try as he might, the interviewer was unable to get Mr. Levine or Barbara Marcus, also of Scholastic, to say much about what lies ahead for readers in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. However, Arthur Levine did …read more!

There are published reports today about the tight security plans one German company is using to print copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This article from The Age gives details of the efforts to prevent any copies of the book getting out early: A worker at the GGP printing works, near Jena in …read more!

The Times newspaper has posted this article speculating about what type of books J.K. Rowling will write next once the Harry Potter series is finished. The article suggests that she might turn to writing mystery novels, saying: She has a strong interest in crime fiction and would be a successful writer of detective novels, according …read more!

EA Games, makers of the Harry Potter video games, recently showcased the upcoming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire video game at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles. TLC reader Chris let us know about some extended footage now available on Gametrailers.com from the new game. It features Harry flying through those rings, like …read more!

We know there’s been a lot of wibbling and frustration among people in the UK who were unable to access the official Goblet of Fire site, so we’re happy to note that it is now accessable across the British Isles. If you’re still having issues loading it, you’ll need to clear your cache and/or hit …read more!

Yesterday NPR’s Talk of the Nation focused on the end of the Star Wars movies with a discussion of fan-generated works, including fanfic, fan art, fan films and vidding. Harry Potter was prominently discussed along with the two Star Wars trilogies and other fan-intensive entertainment like Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Buffy, and X-Files. …read more!