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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The seventh and final Harry Potter book goes on sale at midnight, a publishing milestone that ends months of fevered speculation among fans over the fate of the fictional boy wizard and his wand-wielding friends.
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U.S. sales of the seventh and final  Harry Potter volume hit an estimated 8.3 million in the first  24 hours, confirming its place in the history books as the  fastest-selling book ever.
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The sixth Harry Potter book, the Half-Blood Prince, is set to go on sale on 16 July 2005. JK has already revealed that the Half-Blood Prince is neither Harry nor Voldemort.
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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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Amazon.com has reported fourth quarter sales of $3.99 billion, up significantly on the $2.98 billion it achieved a year previously. Although revenue growth continues to be fast despite Amazon's large size and relative maturity, profits are a different story.
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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 final book in the world-shaking Harry Potter series headed Sunday for new sales records as millions of readers across the globe rushed to find out the fate of the bespectacled boy wizard.
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The seventh and final book in J.K.  Rowling&#39;s Harry Potter series has become online retailer  Amazon&#39;s most pre-ordered product, with almost 1.6 million  copies bought globally ahead of the book&#39;s release on July 21.
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Business & money: Publisher Bloomsbury boosted by strong overseas pre-orders of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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By JESSICA MINTZ  SEATTLE - 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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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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Asda Supermarket in the UK dropped the price of the new Harry Potter book from Â£8.87 to Â£5, the same price as rival chains. To prevent people from buying in bulk, they will limit customers to two copies. Asda wants to make sure children will be able to...
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Online bookseller Amazon.com reports that it sold 2.2 million advance copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." It also tracked what towns and cities were most fanatical about the book, with a ranking of the top 100 towns by advance book sales per capita for municipalities with 5,000 people...
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Start queuing now. The latest volume in the saga of the best-known pupil at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft will go on sale next July.
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A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for nearly $4 million at auction Thursday.
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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.