Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is 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 http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/story/0,10761,875390,00.html.

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 http://www.harry-auf-deutsch.de/.

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Vietnamese - 21 July - 2003 - Serbia and Montenegro - Serbian - France - Germany - The Netherlands

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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 http://www.radio.cz/en/news/42665 and the official Czech publisher (Albatros http://www.albatros.cz) announcing that they would sue the schoolboy. Later they retracted this announcement.

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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.

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Britain - Blind - Home Secretary - David Blunkett - Cassette

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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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