Copies of
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the biggest first printing in the history of publishing, are bound and boxed and ready for perusal.
But don't try vualting over the fence at one of the book's distributon warehouses in the U.S. or Canada before the midnight release date to get an early peek.
You'd likely meet up with beefy security guards or, in the case of Canandian publishers, German Shepherds specially hired to guard the highly anticipated fifth entry in the wildly successful wizard-and-sorcery franchise.
.... OotP is set to have a record initial press run in the U.S. of 8.5 million copies... It took AMS three years to sell 2 million copies of GoF, with the new book, AMS expects to sell 2 million by January 1, 2004.
