Capturing Harry

The final countdown has begun for Scholastic's July 16 release of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. BTW would like to vicariously attend as many Potter-related celebrations as possible: Please keep digital cameras handy during your store's midnight, dawn, or noon events. We would like to run an array of photographs in future issues of BTW. Be sure to include captions with the name of your store and a description of the people and events pictured.

Photos (preferably 300 dpi, saved as JPEG or TIFF files) and descriptions should be sent to BTW staff writer Nomi Schwartz at nomi@bookweb.org.

Jumping the Gun?

Any sightings of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on sale prior to Scholastic's official laydown date of Saturday, July 16, at 12:01 A.M., should be reported to David Walker, ABA's director of special projects, at davidw@bookweb.org or (800) 627-0037, ext. 6612.