The paperback edition of 'The Half-Blood Prince' will be released in the UK on June 23rd and in the US on July 25. If you would like to pre-order a copy of the book, retailers such as Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble now have that option available.
The American version is selling for $9.99, and the British version is selling for £6.39.
At the 78th Annual Academy Awards last night, the Harry Potter Films once again came up empty. Memoirs of a Geisha won the award for "Achievement in Art Direction" (the only category in which Goblet of Fire was nominated this year).
According to a recent interview on Comingsoon.net, director Alfonso Cuaron is not especially keen about directing a future Potter flick.
He states:
"At this point today? No," he told us with a smile, "but I can tell you that I spent the most beautiful two years of my life doing 'Harry Potter'. Everything around the J.K. Rowling product is surrounded by this very beneficial energy. It's fantastic to be around her and associated with it. I don't know. In the future, if I'm invited, I would consider it definitely because it was such a beautiful experience, but in the same hand, I'm not very good about repeating stuff that I did before."