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Wide shot exterior of Waterstone's book shop on High Street Kensington2. Medium of JK Rowling's new book \"The Casual Vacancy\" in shop window3. Pan down from...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSHOTLIST (including transcript):-\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment \u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 27 September 2012 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot exterior of Waterstone's book shop on High Street Kensington\u003cbr/\u003e2. Medium of JK Rowling's new book \"The Casual Vacancy\" in shop window\u003cbr/\u003e3. Pan down from Waterstone's sign to fans waiting outside store\u003cbr/\u003e4. VOX POP (English) Left to right: Sophia Gustafsson, Emily Hall and Hannah Fogelberg, J.K. Rowling fans from Sweden:\u003cbr/\u003eHall: \"She has a great fan base that are in their early 20s and older now, so I think it's really good that she...well Harry Potter has always been there growing up and he grew up with you and now you're an adult and suddenly there is a book for adults too, so.\" \u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide with zoom in fans outside store\u003cbr/\u003e6. VOX POP (English) Hannah Fogelberg, fan - on if critics and the media will judge the book harshly:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes, definitely. I think that's why she's waited a while to publish another book, because she's afraid maybe, I don't know. I feel sorry for her if that's the case, but I have high hopes for this book, so...\"\u003cbr/\u003eHall: \"I really hope people will judge her fairly, like this is a completely different book from Harry Potter, so we can't really make any comparisons.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of fans receiving book\u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium of fan Hannah Fogelberg purchasing book and walking towards friends\u003cbr/\u003e9. Medium of fan Emily Hall reading book surrounded by friends\u003cbr/\u003e10. Medium of staff members unloading book from crates and placing them on display cabinet\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of book on display\u003cbr/\u003e12. Medium of Rik McShane, Head of Books for Waterstone's, talking to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Rik McShane, Head of Books for Waterstone's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's been the most hotly anticipated book of the year. It's been out biggest pre-order book of the year. Loads of J.K.'s readers have been coming in asking when it's going to be published. As soon as the announcement was made people were coming in asking if we knew anything about the story, as soon as the cover image was announced they were coming in again asking could they sign up for the pre-order, so it's been fantastic really.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Medium of Rik McShane, Head of Books for Waterstone's, talking to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rik McShane, Head of Books for Waterstone's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's around the ideas of the pettiness and politics of local councils, it's about the class divide and the cash divide between the haves and the have nots, so I think it is going to be very socially interesting. (There's) Quite a lot of social commentary in there, and as with everything that JK Rowling writes, it's going to have some great characters and some great plot.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Medium of books on display\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close, with zoom, out books on display\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Rik McShane, Head of Books for Waterstone's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think every author when they bring out a new title, particularly if they have been in the public eye is going to get a tough ride by some critics. Some people loved Harry Potter, some people didn't love Harry Potter, I think it is going to be the same thing. I think with all books and with all authors it is very much a personal opinion and people will love what they want to love.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment \u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 27 September 2012 \u003cbr/\u003e19. Philip Jones picking up copy of JK Rowling's new book, The Casual Vacancy\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various of Jones looking through book\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Jones, editor, \"The Bookseller\":\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it will add a lot, it will take her to new markets and I think I've seen the figure today 2 million pre-orders, so that means the book is probably already in profit and she's already making royalties on it, so it will further increase her wealth. But, I don't think that is the reason she has written it, I think she has written it because she wanted to write it. It's a very personal book, it's a personal and profound message. I don't think she's written it for the reviewers or for sales, I think she's written it for readers in order to get that message across, which is a message about poverty and about her past and about the conversation around poverty that is existing now.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Jones reading book \u003cbr/\u003e23. Copies of Rowling's book on shelf\u003cbr/\u003eBritish bookshops opened their doors early Thursday for the U.K. launch of \"Harry Potter\" author J.K. Rowling's long-anticipated first book for adults, \"The Casual Vacancy.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe launch was missing fans in wizard costumes, but the book was published to some of the same fanfare that greeted each Potter tome, with stores wheeling out crates of the books precisely at 8 a.m.\u003cbr/\u003ePublished five years after the release of the last book in the boy wizard saga, \"The Casual Vacancy\" is already at No. 1 on Amazon's U.S. chart, and bookmaker William Hill put 2/1 odds on it outselling \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,\" which shifted 2.6 million copies in Britain on its first day.\u003cbr/\u003eMany of the early buyers were Harry Potter fans who, like the author, have moved on to more adult fare.\u003cbr/\u003e\"She has a great fan base that are in their early 20s and older now,\" said Swedish fan Emily Hall who queued up outside the Waterstone's book shop on Kensington High Street in order to be one of the first to get her hands on the novel.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Harry Potter has always been there growing up and he grew up with you and now you're an adult and suddenly there is a book for adults too,\" she added.\u003cbr/\u003eA story of ambition and rivalry set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the novel recounts the civic warfare sparked when the unexpected death of a town official leaves a vacancy on the governing body.\u003cbr/\u003eRowling has said she was aiming for Dickensian sweep in the multi-character saga, whose doses of sex, satire and swearing mark a distinct departure from wholesome Harry.\u003cbr/\u003eReviews have been mixed. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Guardian newspaper said it was \"no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny.\" Several reviewers felt the lack of easily likable characters might be off-putting to readers.\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to Rik McShane, Head of Books for Waterstone's, Rowling was always going to be in for a rough ride with some critics.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think every author when they bring out a new title, particularly if they have been in the public eye is going to get a tough ride by some critics. Some people loved Harry Potter, some people didn't love Harry Potter, I think it is going to be the same thing,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's likely nothing Rowling publishes will ever match the success of the Potter books, which have sold more than 450 million copies around the world.\u003cbr/\u003eBut booksellers are confident \"The Casual Vacancy\" will be one of the year's best-sellers, whatever reviewers say.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's been the most hotly anticipated book of the year. It's been out biggest pre-order book of the year,\" said McShane.\u003cbr/\u003ePhilip Jones, editor of the publishing trade magazine \"The Bookseller,\" said Rowling's novel has already secured two million orders on its first day of publication and will further enhance her brand value by taking her into new markets. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The book is probably already in profit and she's already making royalties on it, so it will further increase her wealth. 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