According to Reuters, book pre-ordrs for OotP have surpassed 500,000. And that’s just one Web site.

Movie site Empire Online reports that a father bought the Chamber of Secrets movie for his 5-year old daughter and it ended up being The Exorcist. Sounds suspicious but, if true….even *I* had nightmares from that movie.

Thanks to Laura for the reminder – those of you who are not yet 18 and are planning on entering the Scholastic Essay Contest to win an all-expense paid trip to London, England to hear J.K. Rowling answer questions and read from her new novel…need to have your entries postmarked by today. This means take …read more!

ChrisRankin.com has announced that Chris Rankin, who plays the role of Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, will be participating in 3 Book V launch events – one in Norwich for the midnight release and two on Saturday; one in Barking and another in Windsor.

The Scholastic Book V site is now live containing the SPOILERS that were found in the most recent Scholastic catalogue.

Well folks, I’ve been hinting liberally over the past couple weeks of a big project I’ve been working on to bring you the maximum amount of fandom participation in the upcoming launch of Order of the Phoenix – I wanted to wait until we had exactly 30 days to go and so I have – …read more!

Barnes & Noble, today, announced that most stores will be open the night of Friday, June 20th for the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. (Editor’s Note:: Most likely those stores within malls will have to negociate the mall staying open. I’m inclined to believe that all standalone stores will be …read more!

Sandra emailed us this article from a local paper in Glencoe with some great details about the filming: Warner Brothers has been inundated with requests from kids and parents to be extras on set during the location shoot in the gloomy glen. Warner Brothers’ spokeswoman Vanessa Davies said yesterday: “We would say to children or …read more!

The BBC picked up an article from the Wall Street Journal today on some of the stats for book sales in the US. Scholastic will ship 8.5 million copies of the book to shops in time for its release. The marketing campaign will cost between $3-4m (£1.8-2.5m). The four previous Harry Potter books have sold …read more!

Well, fellow witches & wizards (and sneaky muggles) – it begins. Over the next month you’ll be seeing hundreds of articles about one of the largest launches in the history of the book – TLC even has something due out this week to celebrate this massive undertaking. Scholastic has announced a huge marketing campaign including …read more!