July 21st 2007!!!! omfg *hyperventilates and possibly ceases breathing* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released at 12.01am (new york time I think, so around 12 noon the same day in Singapore) in addition to the release of OotP on July 13th Friday (in Canada, the US and in the UK), = a harrypotter summer! It's on a Saturday so I have the weekend to read it. But it'll probably be in term3 with lots of pts, SAs and whatnot so I have a feeling it wouldn't be such a good idea. And harrypotter fever would practically end by 21/7 , for good )): All the hype would be from friday to saturday of that week, and it would ebb before the next week is out. I honestly did not expect it to be so soon, and I have a feeling I would miss listening to theory discussions on mugglecast, and what would happen to editorials?! I actually wanted it to be around june 2008 so that jkr would have sufficient time to do it up properly and we would have lots and lots of time to postulate. Also, I'm not sure if this is a wise publicity stunt by the publishers, because once the hype dies down, it would be difficult for sales to rise again. The sale of the book would have to compete with sales of the movie, as well as publicity, so there would be less net sales of the book even though there is greater hype. Some might argue that the movie would instead promote the book, since the movie is released earlier, and maybe persuade non-harry-potter readers but harrypotter movie-watchers to buy a copy.
I don't think I'll pre order; the last time I did it, the book came 2 days late, and I was spoiled by then ): I should get to writing an editorial, if I want to, really soon.