British bookstore to set up Potter helpline for distressed fans: report
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British book retailer Waterstone's is hoping to set up a helpline for distressed fans of the popular Harry Potter series because two characters will be killed off in the final instalment, The Daily Telegraph reported.
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A website offering e-copies of the sixth Harry Potter book is closed after an investigation by the BBC News website.
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Author JK Rowling has warned Harry  Potter fans to watch out for Internet fraudsters claiming to  sell electronic copies of her latest wizard saga -- they are  trying to steal bank and credit card details.
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The publisher of the new Harry Potter book said it canceled shipments to one of Britain's largest supermarket chains, owned by Wal-Mart, in a dispute over unpaid bills.
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Bloomsbury PLC, the British publisher of the Harry Potter books, said Thursday that advance orders for the latest and final volume of the series are 17 percent ahead of the pre-orders for the previous book.
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Even Jane Austen would have trouble finding a publisher today, a struggling author revealed on Thursday.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Attack on Bloomsbury for 'profiteering' withdrawnÂ· Stores will sell book as loss leader in price war
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Arts & entertainment: Children's phone counselling service lays on extra staff to cope with any surge in calls from book fans.
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Harry Potter fans in Gwinnett County, Georgia, can breathe a sigh of relief.
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling says she felt "devastated" writing the last words of the final book.
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British author J.K. Rowling said on Tuesday she was both heartbroken and euphoric about wrapping up the long-awaited final book in her successful "Harry Potter" series, but gave no clues about the boy wizard's fate.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - The New York Times and the Baltimore Sun published reviews of the final Harry Potter book on Thursday before it went on sale, drawing a stinging response from author J.K. Rowling.
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Thousands of Harry Potter fans poured into book stores around the world on Saturday as the seventh and final volume in the series went on sale, and for many the secret of the boy wizard's fate was only hours away.
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The seventh and final Harry Potter book goes on sale at midnight, a publishing milestone that will end months of fevered speculation among fans over the fate of the fictional boy wizard and his wand-wielding friends.
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The publisher of the latest Harry Potter book cancels an order to supply 500,000 copies to a UK supermarket.
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The witching hour is almost here. Thousands of would-be warlocks, sorcerers and ordinary, non-magical Muggles lined up outside bookstores from Sydney to Seattle on Friday, eager to get their hands on "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final volume in the boy wizard's saga.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, the British publisher of the smash Harry Potter series, said Wednesday it has agreed to buy Walker Publishing Co. Inc., which publishes adult nonfiction and children's books.