HP7

we had a big staff meeting yesterday, with two vital pieces of news for all booksellers:
1 as of midnight the night before, all ISBNs in our search engine had suddenly grow to 13 digits, making things just that extra little bit confusing and
2. 2007 looks to be the year of the last harry potter book, or as the management is calling it the year of HP7. mind you, rowlings publisher has yet to receive the manuscript for this work, and there is still a chance it might not make it out this year at all, but it is ANTICIPATED to come out in the next 12 months, so the company i work for is already devising a strategy for dealing with this. as of next week, we will start informing customers, and giving out harry potter bookmarks. the bosses say this will be bigger than christmas, and will take months of preparation. the employees will more senority who were around for HP6 tell horror stories of having to wear awful tee shirts and being attacked by throngs of little kids. and, of course, on the night the book does finnally come out, we will stay open around the clock. the shop will close at 9 for three hours of preparation, and then reopen at midnight and one minute to start the sales. the boss has already put up a sign up sheet to find out who is willing to work the overnight shift. there is double pay, so naturally i volunteered!