J.K Rowling is a magician of sorts indeed. The seventh book of the Harry Potter series promises to disappear from the bookshelves as soon as it is released and you do not need to utter any magic mantra for that.
Amazon.com Inc. said on Tuesday it had booked more than 1 million advance orders for ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,’ scheduled for release in late July.
The online retailer also lowered its price on the book to $17.99 from $18.89 saying that it would honor the lower price for customers who had already ordered the book, the seventh and the last in the extensively popular series by J.K. Rowling about a boy wizard and his adventures in the wizard world.
Advance orders for this book have surpassed those in 2005 for Rowling’s sixth release, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”. More than 250,000 copies have been ordered in advance in the United Kingdom, while the figure has gone up to 620,000 in the United States.
The book, which is published in the United States by Scholastic Corp and in Britain by Bloomsbury, officially goes on sale on July 21. Meanwhile, Harry Potter fans can only wait with bated breath and speculate. In her official website the author mentions that she feels both sad and euphoric on completing the series that created a new trend and gave her worldwide fame. With more than two months still left before the d-day arrives, who knows, there may be still more records to be broken, hitherto unheard of, in publishing history.
Source: MSNBC
