http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/book....ap/index.html
In the United States, summer camps were planning midnight wake-up calls and waiving package restrictions in anticipation of "Half-Blood Prince," the penultimate of Rowling's planned seven-book series.
One camp in New Hampshire even planned to forklift books to kids.
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I've talked to a few bookstore owners and they tell me they've never, ever seen anything as frenzied as this..........the last one released was bad, this one is far more crazy.