Countdown to the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is less than 10 days, but Amazon is offering an audio clip of the book here.
CNN discusses the incredible hype surrounding the fifth book's release. Gothamist wonders how many children will be on line in the middle of the night for this book - we saw tons of kids going to the first midnight screenings of the Harry Potter movies.





The summer of Harry Potter vs. Hillary Clinton. Wow, it's like porn for horny Barnes & Noble execs. You get mom coming in to pick up Hill's tome while dragging the brats over to get the new Harry Potter. It's true, people WILL read again.
i may have to get online at midnight, and then quit my job, so i can finish the new harry potter. it's like crack- once you get some you can't stop fiending.
It's being released over a weekend, so maybe you don't need to quit your job yet. I'd like to see you try to get fired, and then you hole up in a bunker, a la George Costanza.
why wait in line? I bought mine on amazon in January, and they promised to deliver it to me the day of its release. It worked last time...