Harry Potter and the supermarket giant, a very modern publishing tale
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Attack on Bloomsbury for 'profiteering' withdrawnÂ· Stores will sell book as loss leader in price war
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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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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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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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Does the Harry Potter news make Scholastic a page-turner?
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The publisher of the latest Harry Potter book cancels an order to supply 500,000 copies to a UK supermarket.
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The dusty world of book publishing has  taken a step into cyberspace as Random House and HarperCollins  letting customers browse books online.
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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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The Harry Potter books have spawned a  parallel universe on the Internet, where sites attract millions  of fans every day and play a major part in the success of the  novels and their Hollywood adaptations.
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JK Rowling is widely expected to break her own record as the world's fastest-selling author.
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The final chapter of the Harry Potter series has at least one thing in common with the first six - it's already a runaway best seller, six months before it hits store shelves.
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Shares of Scholastic Corp. and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, the publishers of the Harry Potter books, surged after author JK Rowling finished the manuscript of the sixth volume in the series and a release date was set.
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The book publishing community is  upbeat as it faces life without Harry Potter, along with an  immediate future bereft of sure-fire blockbusters.
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Leading British supermarkets have  embarked on a last-minute price war over the final book in the  Harry Potter wizard series, slashing prices to 4.99 pounds  ($10.23) in an effort to lure shoppers to their stores.
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J.K Rowling, who became the world&#39;s  first billion dollar author on the back of Harry Potter&#39;s  success, has given the go-ahead for the creation of a Florida  theme park dedicated to the schoolboy wizard.
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A taste of the latest in food memoirs, a thriving literary genre
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A fantasy book about a prehistoric boy hunter, tipped as the next big thing in children's books following the "Harry Potter" series, went on sale after gathering its author huge sums in publishing deals.