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DH sells 11.5 million copies in 10 days
Scholastic announced today the record breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, selling 11.5 million copies in 10 days. Scholastic was printing copies of DH up until the final hours of the release, and in total printed 14 million books.To date, all seven books in the series have sold a total of 350 million copies worldwide.
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New York, NY August 2, 2007 - Scholastic, the global publishing, education and media company, announced today that sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the blockbuster final volume in J.K. Rowling’s phenomenally successful series, reached a record breaking 11.5 million copies in the U.S. in its first 10 days on sale. This milestone comes on the heels of the previously announced 8.3 million copies sold in the U.S. within the first 24 hours of the book’s release at 12:01am on July 21st.
Scholastic was printing copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows right up to the final hours prior to release and, with pre-orders and reservations climbing at an incredible pace, the Company was able to print enough additional copies to be in position for re-supply following the launch. The additional copies brought the total number of the U.S. edition in print for the seventh book to 14 million.
Currently, Harry Potter titles and the deluxe edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hold eight spots on the USA Today bestseller list. In the U.S. alone, there are currently 140 million copies of the seven Harry Potter books in print.
Harry Potter books in print in the U.S. by title:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - 29 million
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 24 million
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 20 million
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 19 million
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 17 million
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 17 million
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 14 million
To date, over 350 million copies of the seven books in the Harry Potter series have been sold worldwide.
Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leader in educational technology. Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children’s books, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. The Company distributes its products and services through a variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs, school-based book fairs, and school-based and direct-to-home continuity programs; retail stores, schools, libraries and television networks; and the Company’s Internet site, www.scholastic.com.
Scholastic was printing copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows right up to the final hours prior to release and, with pre-orders and reservations climbing at an incredible pace, the Company was able to print enough additional copies to be in position for re-supply following the launch. The additional copies brought the total number of the U.S. edition in print for the seventh book to 14 million.
Currently, Harry Potter titles and the deluxe edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hold eight spots on the USA Today bestseller list. In the U.S. alone, there are currently 140 million copies of the seven Harry Potter books in print.
Harry Potter books in print in the U.S. by title:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - 29 million
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 24 million
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 20 million
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 19 million
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 17 million
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 17 million
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 14 million
To date, over 350 million copies of the seven books in the Harry Potter series have been sold worldwide.
Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leader in educational technology. Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children’s books, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. The Company distributes its products and services through a variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs, school-based book fairs, and school-based and direct-to-home continuity programs; retail stores, schools, libraries and television networks; and the Company’s Internet site, www.scholastic.com.
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Visitor Comments
Cheesecake is so hot! That would be one sexy scar on your head! One big Cheesecake! ebob14 --- JKR is going to write the Encyclopedia on what happened after the war. I hope that she has some stuff on Severus and what he is up to with DD.
Not surprised at al.... *sigh* This lack of HP news is depressing but alas, I guess we'll have to get used to it now....
yo the tiki tiki is the cheesecake's chicky for the fishy little kissy of the big cake dizzy oh the shizzy for the lizzy of some great dum hizzy. what tha what tha, I can't control ya. for the cake of the cheesy is just dang too pleasin oh the tiki, the tiki tiki tiki, oh the tiki, i don't know chicky.
whats with th weird rap thing
LOL man i cn't believe i missed out on the cheesecake convo... and I agree they should deffinately put this up somewhere! is it just me or does anyone else think that a cheesecake shaped scar would have been better then a lightning bolt shaped scar on harrys head... if at all possible making him yummier then he already is! :D
yo loony who lurvs the potty, it kinda sounds like party, for the party has the potty of the greatest little hotty, cause she's tiki, she's tiki, she's loony luna tiki cause she's a chicky. cheesecake is better when there's good weather cause it's tiki, oh the tiki with the chicky, oh oh oh, hey what the yo let's get it on the go cause the cake is for tha sho, cause it's tiki.
whats with the cheesecake thing?
hey rob why a snob, just go with the flow and then you shall know cause it's tiki. yeah yeah yeah it's super tiki, the cheesecake is the freaky that can get you really chicky cause it's tiki, what the what, it's super freaky. yeah....
au revoir rob1007. are you my alterego? or my evil twin? you shall perish for your copyness lord vader. alas...you are not the true rob. you don't have the-ah-robness that true rob's must have...
and the rob must have the 15 for that defines the tiki oh yeah the super tiki......fashizzle on ya nizzle if ya know what I mean but if you don't then you won't cause you are the dope, it's super tiki yea yeah.
you shall pay for your uncheesecakeyness you aged orangutan. i shall cast you down and shove things that have never beeen shoved up your nose up your nose. yes alas...up your nose. you shall attempt to seize me but alas...it didn't make it
Ok the cheesecake thing is making me hungry for cheesycake but i dont have a cheesecake! I MUST NOW DESTROY THE WORLD AND TAKE OVER ALL THE CHEESECAKYNESS OF IT ALL AND I WILL NOT REST UNTILL ALL THE CHEESECAKE IS MINE!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHA! HAHAHA! >cough, cough< HAHA! :P
what loony lurvs you're supposed to luv cause if you don't then know that you'll lose you're swerv, it's freakynacious, yeah yeah alas it's spacious what what it's cheesecakenacious of the wirka wirk what the hacious.
hey hey you you i don't like your girlfriend no way no way i think you need a new one hey hey you you i don't like your girlfriend no way no way i think you need a new o- alas...um *shifts feet and looks down*
Ugh this is so depressing that there is no news!! D: I wish there was another book 7 haha, so we could have all the crazy news stories again.
hey hey you you i don't like your girlfriend no way no way i think you need a new one hey hey you you i could be your girlfriend no way no waaaay!!!!*slaps self and hides under bed, too embarrassed to face cheesecake*
We can always read book 7 again and again and again and again and again and again... wow energizer bunny deja vu...
alas...we must stick together during this time of crisis my young spark plugs ahh the time has come when we must fight to the death young dogs!!! do not back down just because of the Cuban Post Crisis my young ratmonkeys!
woah woah woah dannyrob15 "we must fight to the death young dogs" have you turned into the Michael of Vick? this concerns me for we shall all have charges against us unless we fight the good fight!!!!! For the Greater Good!!!!! ONWARDS!!!!!!!
that's amazing! :D but i've noticed that the news is really starting to slow down. i know, naive of me, it SHOULD because the books are all over now. :[ it's sad...oh well, we still have the movies. i just need to find a new series to get addicted haha. [though nothing will compare to harry potter for me...] maybe i will read the entire harry potter series as a whole, to sort of understand the big picture better, and maybe notice some foreshadowing. i also think it will help highlight the themes.
Wait just a moment young dillicious cheesecakers! we must plan a strategy first! we shall run around screaming like little girls! then we shall pretend to be death and fall to the ground after singing and incredibly loud verse of "ring around the rosy"! Then and only then will the cheesecake gods favor us a winning battle! onward and we shall prevail! for the greater good!!!
FOR GLORY AND RUIN AND THE RED SOUND!!!!!!!!ONWARD, OATHS YOU HAVE TAKEN, DEATH YOU HAVE FEIGNED, NOW RIDE RIDE TO THE DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!
...hmmm..... I don't remember taking any oaths.... but I did have oatmeal in the morning... CLOSE ENOUGH!
Such great news for the books that made the world's children WANT to read more and more. I will never forget that midnight book party when I received my copy thinking "this is it...", and I will never forget the first time I read the Sorcerer's Stone thinking "I want to read it again!" And I would think that, after years 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7!...Every book, the joy of reading each new thing happening and then re-living it when I would re-read the books. It has been like nothing else. It has been a place to escape. Anyway I love Harry Potter and this is just more proven success for the boy who lived and the woman that made it all happen. Cheers to Jo.
well you have not taken the cheesecakeian oath which is"I swear not to read spoilers or create them. I will get dannyrob15 cheesecake anytime he asks, and I will destroy the evil Housifa Dirtburglar."
Holy shhh, people, get girlfriends. Something.
Anyamarcos I have a girlfriend, but sadly she is out of town. :(
*Realizes that now Deathly Hallows is out news will slow down considerably* NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Need......Harry......Pott er......news............. .......
Wow....rotflmao..... this is the funniest comment board yet... i just read th entire thing.... we really need some news!
I just ate some cheesecake.....there's your news now put it up on a blog and create a cheesetastic comment board about it please......because it's tiki oh yeah tiki tiki of the tik with the chick ah ha. alas we can not all be wise young grasshopper and cake for we need to learn that it is our choices far more than our abilities that makes us who we are. peace
We really need some more news about harry potter... as you can all see just from reading about our cheesecake and tiki tiki comments... I think we are all slowly losing our young grasshopper minds... need.....harry ....potter!!! We shall all lose our cheesecakness soon without it! NOOOO!!!! and oddly ...I dont have a girlfriend.... but that might be because I am a girl... ah alas... what came first? the pheonix or the egg????????
ok well i guess there's nothing going on here... im going to bed. goodnight cheesecakers
good night young apprentice and may your dreams be filled with the glory that is cheesecake. peace dizzle
Alas I must call it a night aswell... for it is no longer a morning.... Goodnight young grasshopper cheesecake eating tiki tiki's I shall be here again soon! night all! HARRY POTTER ROCKS! HAVE A MERRY HARRY DREAM!
good night loony because you lurvs potty and that is the party shizzle forizzle.
I submitted 2 Harry Potter stories to Mugglenet so hopefully they'll put it up! If they do, I'm Elizabeth!!! So some thanks would be nice lol
this is seriously the funniest freakin comment board i have ever seen. EMERSON if ur reading this, u should soooo make like a new section talking about what happens after book 7 is over and everyone loses their minds!!!! hahahahahahahhahhHAHHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH! wow, this is just... wow.
muhahaha muhahahahaha!!!!!CHEESECA KE IS THE SHIZNIT MUHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! *GOES AND GETS A PIECE AND GIVES TO COUSIN. THEN SLAPS COUSIN AND STEALS BACK CHEESECAKE* MUHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
does anyone realize that... that is like 13 books a second 11,500,000 books in 10 days divide that by 10 1,150,000 books a day divide that by 24 thats 47,916 books an hour divide that by 60 thats 798 books a minute divide that by 60 again thats 13 books a minute... and all thats rounding down... thats incredible.. despite the book being mediocre. sorry jo..
cyssero8908: You'll shall burn in moldy cheesecake hell for that unrighteous statement. To everybody else who loved the book and thought it was the greatest we wish you love, peace, and soul!!!!!!!
Once upon a time, a goose drank whine. The monkey chewed the back of the street car line. The street car broke, the monkey got a choke, and they all went to heaven on a little nany goat. :D It makes no sence, but it's a wierd nursury rhyme i learned as a kiddy.
superfish31 you are cheesecaketastic sayin you're super tiki, tiki tiki tiki, it's super tiki it'll get you tiki.
hey does anybody on here have a nissan pathfinder 1995 version? cause i'm about to get one I think and I need to hear some opinions.
woah this comment board is buzzin within excitement for the greatness of cheesecake. heck yeah it's the shizzle for the fizzle of the dizzle kaboom!!!~!
not many muggles on here are there>( that makes me angry>( or big nosed :>(
That's not surprising. The lack of news is making me grumpy. I'm getting the first symptoms of Harry Potter Withdrawal. I guess we're all going to have to get used to this for a while!! :( I'll just have to reread all the books... again. :)
you do that gryffindor_lion and we'll all do it with you LET THE POST-POTTER DEPRESSION BEGIN!!!!!!!
Harry Potter news are slowing down. That makes me sad. :(
Is it just me or is anyone a little depressed/annoyed/feeling unloved at the lack of news lately?? There was heaps in the week following Deathly Hallows but now there seems to be practically none...
are you smarter than a fifth grader? hmm are you or are you not? muhahahaha, now you shall ponder forever!!!!!!
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