Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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A hidden letter placed on Rowling's web site on 20 December 2004 revealed that the latest book has been completed and that her publishers would announce the release date. On 21 December 2004, Bloomsbury and Scholastic jointly announced in a press conference that the book would be published in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand on 16 July 2005.

Here is the transcript of Rowling's announcement:

I know you all expected this to happen on Christmas day, but I was sure that those of you who celebrate Christmas have better things to do on the day itself than to fight your way into my study, whereas those of you who DON'T celebrate Christmas would definitely prefer not to wait until the twenty fifth so?

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is COMPLETED and has been delivered to my English language publishers, who hope to announce the publication date within 24 hours.

Although I have joked about HP&THBP racing my third baby into the world, I have in fact had all the time I needed to tinker with the manuscript to my satisfaction and I am as happy as I have ever been with the end result. I only hope you feel that it was worth the wait when you finally read it!

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Published on: 2005-06-14 (14921 reads)