I'll be waiting out, like the other loons, at midnight for book 7 - even though I already have an electronic copy. I successfully refrained from reading it by re-reading book 6, which turned out to be a good idea. Lots of little details I'd forgotten!
Anyway, if you too are interested in joining the loons, call Barnes & Noble on the Santa Monica promenade, and reserve a copy. Then, at 6:00pm show up to get a numbered bracelet. If there aren't enough copies to go around (and in LA, if anything is remotely interesting, WAY too many people show up, so it's sure to sell out...) they'll call numbers by bracelets - gold bracelets for people who reserved a copy, and blue for those who didn't. At 11:30 they'll have a raffle and let people in - at midnight the sales begin. I'll be there - Barnes and Noble on the Santa Monica Promenade.
Anyway, if you too are interested in joining the loons, call Barnes & Noble on the Santa Monica promenade, and reserve a copy. Then, at 6:00pm show up to get a numbered bracelet. If there aren't enough copies to go around (and in LA, if anything is remotely interesting, WAY too many people show up, so it's sure to sell out...) they'll call numbers by bracelets - gold bracelets for people who reserved a copy, and blue for those who didn't. At 11:30 they'll have a raffle and let people in - at midnight the sales begin. I'll be there - Barnes and Noble on the Santa Monica Promenade.
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There's five privately-owned science fiction / fantasy bookstores just in my *town*, (though to be fair, three of them are under the same ownership), three of which are within walking distance of me, all five of which will be open at midnight for HP.
There's a few more indie stores that aren't specialized for sci fi / fantasy, which are also doing midnight release parties. Two of these stores (Cody's and Moe's) are HUGE, fantastic stores with amazing selections. Moe's is within walking distance, though Cody's is not.
The really remarkable thing about Berkeley is that it's the sort of town in which a Barnes and Noble will open up and then go out of business because no one shops there. (It was across the street from Pegasus Books -- which isn't even one of our *better* indie bookstores.)
Besides which - aren't you a Libertarian? If the market decides that chain bookstores better serve the consumer, isn't that the Invisible Hand of Awesome Free Market Godliness (And-a-pony) that is improving the Entire World for everyone, everywhere?
Which is why I love Berkeley.
I have a grudging acceptance of our local bookstore, whose only real crime is that it's not Austin Books & Comics. I also have a grudging acceptance of the Parkway, whose only real crime is that it's not the Alamo Drafthouse.
So if big chains are more competitive in the magical Free-Market, they are clearly a better choice, have more And-A-Pony magical virtue, and should destroy the inefficient independent stores.