Scholastic announces a 10.8 million print run for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, due out July 16. [USA Today]
“The International Booker is shaping up to be the literary equivalent of the World Cup: which is to say, the British have once again invented a global sport they have little hope of ever winning.” [Telegraph]
“Using his own coin,” Scott Rudin acquires Ian McEwan’s Saturday. [Dark Horizons]
Del Ray announces it will release its novelization of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith in hardcover, with an announced first printing of 650,000. [AP]
Unfortunately, “the Kimberly Bell book tour, even without a publishing deal, has begun.” [ESPN]
