[pp.int.general] Fwd: [Fanac] Harry Potter's Popularity Holds Up inEarly Sales

[Peter Liddell]

I downloaded it and read part of it. Why? because A) the store sold out B)
My brother had a copy and he was reading it.
I got to chapter 20 before stealing it from him, my poor eyes no longer able
to take the strain.

On 7/29/07, Andrew Norton <andrew.norton at pirate-party.us> wrote:
>
> I went with my wife to a midnight launch of it in Atlanta (she's a big
> fan) along with our kids. some 400 copies sold at that one store within 35
> minutes of launch there. Had to say there was one apparant common theme -
> the majority of the book purchasers didn't seem to be big readers in
> general. It was either kids, reading it because it's popular, adults who
> were constantly saying they couldn't believe they were doing this because
> they don't usually read, or, like me, parents there because of their kids.
> People just weren't looking at other books, and despite the extra savings
> that night, not many people bought other books (I got a German phrase book -
> if you've ever seen my attempts in the German or Austrian IRC channels,
> you'll understand why!)
>
> Now, someone was just talking about the Simpsons movie in another IRC
> channel, about how Fox are claiming the czech republic's reputation is
> damaged because of the movie being cammed there -
> http://torrentfreak.com/fox-threatens-measures-after-the-simpsons-movie-leak/
>
> Andrew Norton
> US Pirate Party
> (K`Tetch)
>
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:51:46 +0200, "Amelia Andersdotter" <
> teirdes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Notice the 3rd paragraph in particular. "numerous leaks ... failed to
> dent"
> >
> > As a bookworm I can honestly say that it's never crossed my mind to
> > read any lengthier text even in the most eye-friendly format online.
> >
> > I'm only bringing it up because it's so strange that *they* would
> > bring it up, seeing as it's so obvious that no book-lover would read
> > bad photo-copies, and no non-booklover would ever read it anyway.
> >
> > //amelia
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Daniel Atterbom <daniel at hundens.se>
> > Date: 28-Jul-2007 11:49
> > Subject: [Fanac] Harry Potter's Popularity Holds Up in Early Sales
> > To: Fanac <fanac at lists.lysator.liu.se>
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/books/23potter.html?8bu&emc=bu
> >
> > July 23, 2007
> >
> > Harry Potter's Popularity Holds Up in Early Sales
> > By MOTOKO RICH
> >
> >
> > In its first 24 hours on sale, "Harry Potter and the Deathly
> > Hallows," the seventh and final installment in the wildly popular
> > series by J. K. Rowling that officially went on sale at 12:01 a.m.
> > Saturday, sold 8.3 million copies in the United States, according to
> > Scholastic Inc., the publisher.
> >
> > That exceeded the 6.9 million copies that "Harry Potter and the
> > Half-Blood Prince," the sixth in the series, sold in its first 24
> > hours on sale two years ago.
> >
> > The figures seemed to show that numerous leaks before the official
> > release, including photos of every page of the book that circulated
> > on Internet file-sharing services last week, had failed to dent the
> > enormous pent-up demand for the book.
> >
> > On Friday night, booksellers and fans threw parties to herald the
> > book's release, and at many outlets in New York and elsewhere, lines
> > stretched around the block with shoppers waiting to be among the
> > first to buy the book shortly after midnight.
> >
> >   "The excitement, anticipation, and just plain hysteria that came
> > over the entire country this weekend was a bit like the Beatles'
> > first visit to the U.S.," Lisa Holton, president of Scholastic's
> > trade and book fairs division, said in a statement.
> >
> > The Arthur A. Levine imprint at Scholastic printed 12 million copies
> > of "Deathly Hallows." That brings the number of "Harry Potter" books
> > in print in the United States to 133.5 million.
> >
> > Before the publication of "Deathly Hallows," the six other books in
> > the series had sold about 325 million copies worldwide. The series is
> > published by Bloomsbury in Britain.
> >
> > Many of the books were sold at a substantial discount. Barnes &
> > Noble, for example, was selling "Deathly Hallows" at 40 percent off
> > the $34.99 cover price, or $20.99. Amazon.com was selling it for
> > $17.99. The estimate of first-day sales indicates that at an average
> > selling price of about $20, Americans spent $166 million for the book
> > in one day. Many booksellers will make only slim profits on the
> > book's sales.
> >
> >   Separately, the Borders Group announced that it had sold about 1.2
> > million copies of the book globally in its more than 1,200 Borders
> > and Waldenbooks stores on Saturday. Most of those stores held
> > midnight parties, and Borders estimated that about 800,000 people
> > attended them worldwide. The sales figure exceeded the 850,000 copies
> > of "Half-Blood Prince" that Borders sold on the first day of its
> > sales two years ago.
> >
> >
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