New 'Harry Potter' play coming out in book form

First editions of 'Harry Potter'
A collection of "Harry Potter" first editions in many a language: Finnish, Gaelic, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Welsh Turkish, Polish, Indonesian and more. Scholastic Inc. announced Wednesday that a "script book" of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" will be published July 31.
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The new "Harry Potter" play will become a new Harry Potter book.

Scholastic Inc. announced Wednesday that a "script book" of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" will be published July 31 (which also happens to be the Chosen One's birthday).

The book is a based on the two-part stage collaboration of J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany and arrives just after the play premieres in London on July 30. Rowling's Potter website www.pottermore.com will release an edition.

The first seven Potter books have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide, according to Scholastic, the series' U.S. publisher.

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