Last Harry Potter Book Breaks Sales Records

Posted on July 24, 2007

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has broken all sales records.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" broke sales records in the U.S and in Britain during it first 24 hours on the market. According to the publisher, Scholastic Corporation, the seventh and final book of the series written by J.K. Rowling sold 8.3 million copies in the U.S. on Saturday (July 21st) and 2.65 million copies in Britain.

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The Harry Potter series has sold more than 325 million books worldwide since 1997, making it the biggest children's book series ever, according to Bloomberg, a financial information network. The new book topped last year's "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" as the fastest-selling book in history.

After reading nonstop all day Saturday, we finally finished the last Harry Potter book. We loved it, but were crushed that it's the last full novel in the series. Jo Rowling says she most likely will write a Potter Encyclopedia which will give more background about the characters and the world in which they live. Being the greedy readers that we are, we would far prefer that she write more stories that fill in the time gap between the end of the book and the Epilogue, which -- although most enjoyable -- left quite a few questions in the air. In any event, Jo Rowling really surpassed herself with the last book. It was complex, intense, exciting, dreadfully sad and we loved every word of it.

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