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New Harry Potter Already No. 1 in Sales

Originally posted 12/22/2004 08:00AM

ZOOMED: One day after the announcement that the sixth book in the teen wizard series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, will hit bookstores on both sides of the Atlantic on July 16, the title is already No. 1 on the Amazon.com list in the U.K., with a similar ranking expected in the U.S. Pre-orders of the J.K. Rowling work are being discounted by American retailers, including Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and the Borders chains, all of which sent e-mails to its customers promising to deliver the $29.95 book for $17.99 (40 percent off), if it is pre-ordered today. To date, the Harry Potter titles have sold 250 million copies worldwide.

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