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Harry sells 'three million'

23.07.07

Booksellers across Britain have said that first-night sales of the latest and final Harry Potter book have eclipsed even those of the sixth Harry Potter volume. In the UK the book is reported to have sold at least three millions copies in 24 hours, while in the US it has sold a mountainous 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours, according to Scholastic Inc.

The Telegraph reports that supermarket chain Asda, which is selling the book for £5, said it had already sold 97 per cent of its initial 500,000 copies of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows and was hoping to take delivery of more this week.

"We've sold 100,000 copies in the first two hours across the business in the UK," said Fiona Allen of Waterstone's. "That has outstripped anything we've sold before."

The WH Smith chain sold 15 books every second across Britain overnight, breaking the record set by the previous Potter installment of 13 per second in 2005.

The publisher Bloomsbury said it expected launch sales of the final instalment in JK Rowling's series to significantly exceed the previous title, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, which sold two million copies in 24 hours. A spokesman said figures released today were expected to show that more than three million copies had been sold in the UK already.

Telegraph

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