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Harry breaks records round the world

30.07.07 Alison Flood

Bloomsbury has unveiled further record-breaking statistics for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows around the world, with Australia selling 573,845 copies of the book in the first 24 hours, according to Nielsen BookScan. The figure is 64% higher than first day total sales of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in July 2005.

The audio edition in the UK, meanwhile, has entered the audio bestseller charts at number one, according to Bloomsbury, selling 2564 units in the first 24 hours of the adult and children's edition of the unabridged work, read by Stephen Fry, priced at £74.99 each. The average selling price of the children's edition was £53.36, and the adults' edition was £57.92.

Bloomsbury also reports "strong sell through" in shops across China: Xi Dan Bookshop in Beijing and Shanghai Book City sold more than 2000 copies each during the weekend of launch; while Shen Zhen Bookshop sold more than 1500 copies. Amazon China was reported to have sold more than 7000 copies, while pre-orders in China were more than 200% higher than those of the previous book, according to Bloomsbury.

In India, the book sold an estimated 170,000 copies in the first 12 hours, breaking the record set by HP6, which sold an estimated 100,000 copies on the day of release.

In Canada, sell through of the Raincoast/Bloomsbury edition reached 855,997 for the children's edition and 74,714 for the adult edition in the first week of publication.

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