Scholastic has announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released in paperback on July 1st, 2009 for $14.99.

Fans of Harry Potter are keeping the magic alive online and in bookstores, schools, libraries and homes all across the country with fans re-reading the series and new fans starting at the beginning. There are anniversaries to celebrate, a new charity book in December from J.K. Rowling and now – the announcement from Scholastic that the paperback edition of J.K. Rowling’s bestselling and final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, (ISBN 0-545-13970-8; price $14.99), will be released on July 1, 2009. 

Thanks MN!

I got my issue of Harpers Bazaar magazine today (the one with the Emma Photoshoot) and while I was looking through it I came across an article on Laura Bush, the First Lady. And in one of the photos she is sitting in Lincoln’s bedroom with a black cat and is reading…. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!!!!!

See the scan HERE!

I just received an email from Amazon concerning my order for both Beedle the Bard books. Here is what it said:

We are pleased to inform you that we are now offering Release-Date Delivery for this book. If you update your shipping method from “Super Saver Shipping” to “Standard Shipping” by November 25, 2008, we will deliver the book on Thursday, December 4, 2008. This special delivery option is available to our customers for $3.99 (the same cost as Standard shipping).

We realize that many of our customers are huge J.K Rowling fans, and we’re happy to offer Release-Date Delivery to get this title to you even faster. If you don’t change your shipping options, you should expect to receive your order by the estimated delivery date provided when your order was placed.

So if you want your book on Dec. 4th go do this!

Sorry I forgot to post this, been so busy with classes. Anyways! I got an email from Amazon saying my Sorcerer’s Stone Anniversary book was shipped out yesterday and I should expect it to come on or before the 15th! Which is especially odd since the book comes out on the 23rd.  Many other people have gotten a similar email so this means the book is coming out early! Too bad I won’t be at home to get it.

So if you want to order it go HERE!

The Grand Rapids Press has spoken with the author of The Harry Potter Lexicon, Steve Vander Ark.

“I’ve always been a fan of Harry Potter and of Rowling and my hope all along was that we’d find an amicable way to settle this. I’m disappointed, but this is the way it went and I don’t hold any ill will at all. It was a question of law over a difference of opinion and, in a way, I’m glad that it’s finally over.”

Thanks MN!

Today a judge ruled in favor of JK Rowling and WB in her case against RDR Books.  U.S. district court judge Robert Patterson said that Rowling proved the publication of Steve Vander Ark’s unofficial Potter companion book, based off his web site of the same name, would case irreparable harm to the author. He also said that RDR Books had “failed to establish an affirmative defense of fair use.”

So now The Harry Potter Lexicon book must halt publication. Here is the full decision (it is a pdf file).

Thanks HPANA!