Delivery of 6th Harry Potter

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
21 December 2004

21 December 2004





                      DELIVERY OF SIXTH HARRY POTTER TITLE


Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is pleased to announce that J.K. Rowling has completed
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book in the Harry Potter
series and that it has been delivered to Bloomsbury.  The publication date will
be announced later today.



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