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EmmaRiddle · 10-21-2005, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Fortune_Cookie

First to post! woohoo!

That's cool. I'm glad I'm not in Finland in the sense that I wouldn't be able to read HBP till next year! (Even though I'd love to visit Finland).

Why don't people just have release dates on the same day?

Because translators have to wait until the English release date, like everyone else, to be able to read it. Then it takes a while to translate. Following that it's down to the foreign publishers to decide the date.

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EmmaRiddle Crup Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK Posts: 17,077 Hogwarts RPG Name: Marcella Riddle Graduated	Kaplinski Rival Sorting Hat Machine Quote: Originally Posted by Fortune_Cookie First to post! woohoo! That's cool. I'm glad I'm not in Finland in the sense that I wouldn't be able to read HBP till next year! (Even though I'd love to visit Finland). Why don't people just have release dates on the same day? Because translators have to wait until the English release date, like everyone else, to be able to read it. Then it takes a while to translate. Following that it's down to the foreign publishers to decide the date.