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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
is a 2003 book, the fifth book in the Harry Potter series of children's
books by J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 21 June 2003
in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and several
other countries. It sold almost seven million copies in the United
States and the United Kingdom combined on that day. It has 38
chapters, and is about 255,000 words long.
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A film of the same name, Harry Potter and the Order
of the Phoenix, is tentatively scheduled to be released in 2007.
Translations and publishing
The first official foreign translation of the book appeared in Vietnamese
on 21 July 2003, when the first of 22 installments was released. The
first official European translation appeared in Serbia and Montenegro
in Serbian, by official publisher Narodna Knjiga, in early September
2003. Other translations appeared later, e.g. in November 2003 in
Dutch and German. The English language version has topped the best
seller list in France; while in Germany and The Netherlands an unofficial
distributed translation process has been started on the net.
In the Czech Republic a college student translated the
book in July/September, long before its intended release date, and
one 14-year old schoolboy made it available on his private website.
This led to confusion, with many newspapers stating that this unofficial
translation was done by group of teenagers and the official Czech
publisher (Albatros ) announcing that they would sue the schoolboy.
Later they retracted this announcement.
In Britain, the blind then-Home Secretary David Blunkett
complained about the delay of the cassette version of the book, as
well as its projected price.
The Canadian version of the book is made from recycled
paper and saved 29,640 trees in the initial print run of 1 million
books.
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