Heightened Security As "Harry Potter" Book Printed In Secret Locations

Publisher's Weekly:

As July 21 approaches, Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the eagerly anticipated last volume in the Harry Potter series, is maintaining tight security around the 12 million copies now being manufactured at undisclosed locations and being shipped to retailers over the next few weeks. While Scholastic has refused to divulge where the books are being produced, two reliable sources in Crawfordsville, Ind., a rural community of 15,243 residents 50 miles west of Indianapolis, have confirmed that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is being manufactured at the R.R. Donnelley plant there. With approximately 1,500 employees, the plant, one of 25 Donnelley manufacturing centers in this country, is Crawfordsville's largest employer.

"HP books are being printed right here in itty-bitty Crawfordsville," a local resident, who requested anonymity, reported. "We've been hearing midnight trains on that seldom-used track to Donnelley's for weeks now. That's really the giveaway: middle-of-the-night freight trains on a track that rarely gets used. This is just like last time."

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