Thanks Jey, for sending us this 2.5 MB file of the R5L interview, and Dr. C, for sending this transcript of the interview, in which I made comments to make some things clear. It’s really sort of terrible, seeing the way you ramble in a transcript like that… anyway, thanks again!

The Buffalo News reports on Quebecor, whose paperback plant in Depew “has printed books for Scholastic since Harry Potter left his abominable aunt and uncle and found a permanent home on the best-seller list.”

According to CountingDown.com, part of a Highland auction mart will be taken over by Warner Brothers at the end of March. Construction of a film set will begin in April at Lochaber Rural Complex at Torlundy, near Fort William. Thanks, Sandra, for the link.

An article from the Vancouver Sun reports on how one Order of the Phoenix publisher, Raincoast Books, is gearing up for hard-cover press run which is expected to be about 800,000, almost certainly a Canadian record.

Two online Canadian retailers [Indigo and Amazon] have slashed the price of J.K. Rowling’s fifth Harry Potter book by 40 per cent, months before its publication date. (From The Toronto Star.)

Stockhouse reports that Barnes & Noble stores across the US will remain open late on Friday night, 20 June, and sell Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at the stroke of midnight.

BIG THANKS to Sarah, for risking life and bandwidth to get me this mp3. It’s 7.1 MB of me rambling, so download at your own risk. 🙂 Click here – I hope you enjoy!

This just in from RandomHouse’s Listening Library regarding the Audio Books we hope Jim Dale will narrate: Listening Library is in the process of negotiating the audiobook rights for Harry Potter 5, and therefore I can not give you any information on the audio edition of the book at this time. I encourage you to …read more!

The June arrival of Order of the Phoenix has some publishers possibly rethinking release dates of upcoming books. Quotage: In July 2000, the big titles coming out at the same time as Potter IV created a perfect storm that picked up publicity, production and sales of other books in its tempest — and resulted in …read more!

According to the BBC, Amazon, Borders and Waterstones are announcing record pre-orders for the 5th Harry Potter book. Other bookstores have mentioned phone lines being tied up and a large amount of people popping in to check on the book. Surprising? Hardly. Waterstones has also announced a day of special activities and massive in-store events …read more!