US daily defends early review of last Potter book
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The influential daily The New York Times on Thursday defended its decision to review the eagerly-awaited final book in the Harry Potter series before its release, despite a storm of protest.
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The publication date for the last instalment of the Harry Potter saga has been announced.
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By JESSICA MINTZ SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. has taken more than a million pre-orders for the final &quot;Harry Potter&quot; book due out in July, but the world's largest Web retailer won't make a profit, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos told shareholders at the company's annual meeting Thursday.
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Harry Potter fans will finally find out if the boy wizard survives his last hurrah at Hogwarts Saturday, when J.K. Rowling&#39;s seventh, swansong book comes out amid top security and anxious calls for more.
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The lawyer for Judith Regan, whose  plan to publish a book by O.J. Simpson called "If I Did It"  ignited a firestorm of criticism, plans to sue HarperCollins  for dismissing the publisher in breach of her contract, The New  York Times reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
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J.K. Rowling says she won an argument with airport security officials in New York to carry the manuscript of the final "Harry Potter" book as carry-on baggage. Had security agents not relented, the British author said on her Web site, she might not have flown.
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The latest and next-to-last installment in author JK Rowling&#39;s &quot;Harry Potter&quot; books will go on sale July 16, her publishers said Tuesday.
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US airport security staff almost stopped &quot;Harry Potter&quot; author J.K. Rowling from boarding a flight back to Britain because she would not part with the manuscript for the final Potter book.
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"Harry Potter" novelist J.K. Rowling said Sunday her young hero would survive to the seventh book in her series about the young wizard, but refused to say whether he would reach adulthood.
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The final book in the Harry Potter series sold an estimated 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours of sale, setting a new record for the book industry, according to U.S. publisher Scholastic.
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A British newspaper apologized Monday for a weekend article in which a writer appeared to call for the assassination of President Bush.
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Best-selling children's author J. K. Rowling has given fans of her Harry Potter books a brief but tantalising taster of the next title in the series chronicling the boy wizard's adventures, a report said.
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The Vatican on Wednesday defended the choice of Doubleday to publish Pope Benedict XVI's new book in North America, responding to an Italian newspaper's barb that the company is part of the publishing giant holding the rights to "The Da Vinci Code," which was assailed by the church.
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The publishers of Harry Potter corrected an error in one of JK Rowling's books after readers spotted a mistake.
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The new &quot;Harry Potter&quot; movie drew  lukewarm reviews on Tuesday, but millions of &quot;muggles&quot; are  expected to ignore the critics and turn out in droves for the  widest release ever for Warner Bros. studio.
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The final installment of the Harry Potter series is on track to break previous sales records as its British publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, said yesterday that export orders are already 17 percent ahead of the total overseas sales of the last book.
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The sixth book in the children&#39;s series by JK Rowling rocketed to the top of the best-seller charts on Amazon&#39;s US and UK websites, although it will not be published for another seven months.