Fort Wayne News Sentinel's report

Special shout-out to the writer of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel's piece on HP5, for these paragraphs:

Translation: Nerds, nerds everywhere. Take a drive past any of Fort Wayne's major bookstores around midnight Friday and you'll be able to see scores of J.K. Rowling fans proudly waving wands, flutteringContinued...

Ananova on HP Internet Sales

Ananova reports on HP5's selling status in e-commerce.

Canon, fanon and more, oh my!

The Sacramento Bee has an article today about the run-up to midnight on Friday. The article is incredibly comprehensive, discussing the books themselves, the fandom, Nimbus - 2003, discussion groups like Harry Potter for Grownups, and of course, The Leaky Cauldron.
Quoted in the article is Madeline "Flourish"Continued...

IGN Filmforce's Jim Dale Interview: Part 2:

IGN has the second part of their Jim Dale interview up, in which he speaks of his brief stint in the military, and his big break. Check it out.

Potter Movies: GoF in 2005 and OotP in 2006/early 2007

According to Reuters, Warner Bros. will release Goblet of Fire in November 2005 and Order of the Phoenix 18 months later.

Montreal Wal-Mart Sells Book V Early

According to The Gazette, a Wal-Mart in Montreal accidently put out copies of Book V a little too early and several people managed to get copies.

Scotsman Prints Part 3 Of Rowling Profile

Part 3 of The Scotsman's profile on J.K. Rowling was published today.

B&N Allowing Next Day Orders Till Friday

According to a release put out by Barnes & Noble, you can order Book V as late as 11am on Friday and if you use Next Day Air, it will still get to you in time.

TLC/SugarQuill Editor Makes Front Page of Washington Post

Megan Morrison aka Arabella, TLC editor and one of the co-founders of SugarQuill.net with Jennie Levine aka Zsenya made the front page of today's Washington Post in an article about Fan Fiction entitled "Harry Potter and the Copyright Lawyer."

Also mentioned is a quote fromContinued...

BBC Hosts Video Clips of JKR Interview

Lizo let us know that Newsround has updated their site with video clips from the Paxman interview with JKR, which is set to air on Thursday night. Click here to listen to part of the interview via Real Audio, or click here for a transcript of that same part of the interview.
Note: there are spoilers in theContinued...

Daily News Publishes Spoilers

The New York Daily News has published an article containing a number of spoilers from OotP; the Today Show reported on the article this morning as well. Because of the injunction and embargo, we're not going to publish the spoilers here, or post a link to the article. The paper is claiming that a reporter purchasedContinued...

Courier Mail's Response

Apparently, when we posted the link to "No sex please! This is children's literature", a large number of you wrote in to the author of the piece with your objections - the author of the piece has answered you.

Rowling Talks About the Death

According to this report, J.K. talks about writing the death in Book V. Thankfully, it sounds like only one.

TLC to Interview Jim Dale

We just heard from IGN Film Force that they are going to be releasing a very in-depth interview with Jim Dale one part per day through Friday of this week - it starts here, and is excellent and only promises to get more excellent - and we thought it would be a good time to announce something we've been sitting onContinued...

Yahoo Looks at Book V Dimensions

Yahoo has a great diagram of Book V's dimensions - thanks to nihaochan.