34th annual Saturn Film/Television/DVD Award Winners
The Saturn Awards, for sf/f/h film and television, were just handed out. Big winners were 300 and Lost...
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Tag Archives: Harry Potter
Actor Robert Knox Murdered
Actor Robert Knox (1989-2008) has a small role in the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince...
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Scholastic planning tenth anniversary edition of first Harry Potter book
Scholastic will publish a special tenth anniversary edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone featuring new material by author J.K. Rowling and artist Mary GrandPré...
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Hocus Pocus a novel of magic with actual lessons
Paul Kieve's Hocus Pocus: A Tale of Magnificent Magicians is a novel taking its inspiration from the world's greatest magicians, but also teaching tricks...
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Bloomsbury to switch Canadian distributors to Penguin Canada
Bloomsbury Publishing (the publisher of Harry Potter) is switching its Canadian distribution to Penguin Canada from Raincoast Books...
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Nebula Award Winners Announced
The 2008 Nebula Award winners include Michael Chabon, Nancy Kress, Ted Chiang, and Karen Joy Fowler...
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Nominees for Constellation Awards for Canadian SF Film and Television
The awards recognize Canadian excellence in science fiction film and television, and voting is open to all Canadians...
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Scholastic’s latest financial report
Scholastic is still seeing a bump from the release of the final Harry Potter book, and anticipates lower sales but higher income...
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Raincoast closing publishing business
Canadian publisher and distributor Raincoast Books, which worked on the Harry Potter series, is shuttering its publishing operations...
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J.K. Rowling is a Person of the Year
J.K. Rowling ranked high on Time's list of People of the Year, and answers questions...
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J.K. Rowling hand-written book sells for nearly £2 million
J.K. Rowling's hand-written and -illustrated The Tales of Beedle the Bard was auctioned off for charity...
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Bloomsbury to publish paperback Deathly Hallows in July
Bloomsbury has announced it will release the British paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on 5 July 2008. It will be priced...
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Bloomsbury senior management
Bloomsbury has announced that Richard Charkin is now managing director of Bloomsbury UK and US. CEO Nigel Newton will focus on international operations and the reference line A&C Black.
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Tunnels hype and hysteria seems to be building
Tunnels, the children's fantasy novel Bloomsbury and Chicken House are hyping as "the book to fill the Harry Potter void," has been sold to the movies...
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Amazon manages to lose money selling 2.5 million copies of Deathly Hallows
Amazon.com had a very good third quarter, with sales and profits up over the previous quarter and a year ago, but managed to lose money selling a lot of copies of the final Harry Potter...
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