Amazon sells 2.5 million Harry Potters
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No magical effect on profits though Amazon beat the Street's expectations for its third quarter but still seemed to disappoint traders yesterday. Shares fell sharply in after-hours trading after rising more than ten per cent during the day.â¦
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Online retailer Amazon.com said it had record sales during this year's holiday season.
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Amazon.com Inc. has taken more than a million pre-orders for the final "Harry Potter" book due out in July, but the world's largest Web retailer won't make a profit, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos told shareholders at the company's annual meeting Thursday.
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The final book in the series by J.K. Rowling sold a record 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale in the U.S.
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Amazon.com Inc, the Web retailer known  for selling books, said it had paid about $4 million to buy a  handwritten, illustrated book of wizardry by "Harry Potter"  author J.K. Rowling.
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The final book in the Harry Potter series sold an estimated 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours of sale, setting a new record for the book industry, according to U.S. publisher Scholastic.
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No thanks to Harry Potter No surprise here: Amazon is selling more stuff than ever. Today, the world's most famous online retailer announced second quarter profits of $78m, a 257 per cent leap from the same quarter last year, and net revenues of $2.88bn, a 35 per cent increase.â¦
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Nearly 1.6m copies of the final Harry Potter book have been ordered online ahead of its release later this month.
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Harry Potter worked his magic last year when âHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,â the fifth in the adventures of the boy wizard, took in $97.95 million to become the top-grossing film at box offices in Britain and Ireland.
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[Frankfurt/London | Reuters News Service, 7 October 2004] - Google yesterday introduced a new search technology to help publishers sell books online, a fast-growing market dominated by Internet retailer Amazon.
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The final installment of the Harry Potter series is on track to break previous sales records as its British publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, said yesterday that export orders are already 17 percent ahead of the total overseas sales of the last book.
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Amazon.com Inc.  said on  Friday first-day advance orders for "Harry Potter and the  Deathly Hallows," the seventh and last installment of J.K.  Rowling's successful book series, were 547 percent higher than  for its predecessor.
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The seventh and final volume in the Harry Potter series has become the fastest selling book in history, publishers said on Monday, with more than 11 million copies sold during the first 24 hours in three markets alone.
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The sixth book in the children&#39;s series by JK Rowling rocketed to the top of the best-seller charts on Amazon&#39;s US and UK websites, although it will not be published for another seven months.
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"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" whisked its way to No. 1 at movie box offices with weekend ticket sales of $77.4 million and a five-day total of just over $140 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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A rare first edition of a Harry Potter book sells for Â£9,000 at an auction in London.
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Copies of the final Harry Potter book have already been shipped to customers by one U.S. online retailer, U.S. publisher Scholastic said on Wednesday, and purported copies of the novel have flooded the Internet.