Orders for new Harry Potter up 17 pct.
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Bloomsbury PLC, the British publisher of the Harry Potter books, said Thursday that advance orders for the latest and final volume of the series are 17 percent ahead of the pre-orders for the previous book.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix crowns the 2007 box office in the UK and Ireland.
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The latest Harry Potter film takes a record-breaking $12m (Â£6m) at midnight screenings in the US.
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Harry Potter will be winging his way overseas as never before after the seventh and final instalment of the boy wizard's tale notched up record orders from abroad.
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The Harry Potter phenomenon reached its tumultuous climax this morning as âHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,â the seventh and final installment in the hugely popular series by J .K. Rowling went on sale at 12:01 a.m.
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Canadian publisher of best-selling Harry Potter books by JK Rowling announced today that the sixth book in the series; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will go on sale in Canada on July 16, 2005.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" mopped up on the international circuit for the second consecutive weekend, towering over the competition with an estimated box office of $100.8 million from more than 13,000 screens in 58 markets.
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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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A hand-written and illustrated tale of  wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched 1.95 million  pounds ($3.98 million) -- nearly 40 times its expected price --  at auction on Thursday.
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LONDON &#151; Harry Potter has cast a spell on British book buyers, who purchased more than 2.6 million copies of the boy wizard's final adventure in 24 hours, an industry data service said Monday.
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"These initiatives will help underpin the long-term success of the business between 2008-2012"  The final installment of the Harry Potter series is on track to break previous sales records as its British publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, revealed Thursday that export orders are already 17 percent ... via KCBY-TV Coos Bay
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British supermarket chain Asda apologized to the publisher of the Harry Potter books on Tuesday, having accused it earlier of "blatant profiteering" for charging 17.99 pounds ($36) for the last novel in the series.
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By JESSICA MINTZ SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. has taken more than a million pre-orders for the final &quot;Harry Potter&quot; 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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A hand-written, illustrated book of  wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record  1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on  Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
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The latest installment in the Harry Potter series won't hit stores for more than six months but it has already topped at least one bookseller's most wanted list and is racking up thousands of advance orders, retailers said Wednesday.
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A rare signed first edition Harry Potter book sells for Â£19,700 at Christie's auction house in London.
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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.