Paperback Edition of ‘Deathly Hallows' Slated for July 2009
RSSBy SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 09/29/2008
The paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Scholastic, 2007), J. K. Rowling’s seventh and final Harry Potter novel, will be released on July 7, 2009. This follows the record-breaking release of the hardcover edition, which hit stores at 12:01 a.m. on July 21, 2007 and has so far sold 14 million copies, making it the fastest selling book in publishing history.
With an initial print run of 2 million paperback copies, this will bring the total number of Harry Potter books in print in the U.S. to more than 143 million.
“We have another big year planned for Harry,” says Ellie Berger, Scholastic’s president of trade. The publisher last week held a daylong cover to cover read-a-thon at its headquarters in Manhattan to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the U.S. release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Scholastic, 1998).
The publisher also released a special anniversary edition of the debut novel, which includes an exclusive drawing of Snape drawn by Rowling, as well as new jacket artwork and a four-color frontispiece by illustrator Mary GrandPré.
