Message Forum: Re: Harry Potter Sales

Re: Harry Potter Sales

Posted By: Faux Pas, on host 216.2.167.150
Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2000, at 06:44:39
In Reply To: Harry Potter Sales posted by Beasty on Tuesday, July 11, 2000, at 03:15:03:

> Is Harry Potter selling as well in the rest of the world as it is in the UK?
>
> We have sales of 5 million reported in just three days. Apparently, they were selling at the rate of 50 a second!
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> Anybody beat that?
>
> Be 'nt and twisted, as knobbly as a cornish p' asty

According to USA Today, Amazon.com had 400,000 copies pre-ordered, 90% of which were delivered before 4pm on Saturday. (My copy was delivered sometime before noon.) Barnes & Noble had 650,000 copies on day one (physical shops as well as the web-only shop).

In the US, the first-print run was 3.8 million copies.

-Faux "or roughly 2.8 billion pages" Pas

Link: 'Potter' sales breaking records -- CNN