Police are searching the truck for forensic evidence. The truck was later found, with none of the books. Rowling's series about the boy wizard, was stolen from outside a warehouse in northern England on June 15. Thousands of New Harry Books Stolen in Late Night HeistĪ truck containing more than 7,000 copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth installment in J.K. So far, readers are enchanted and critics impressed.
The British WHSmith chain expects Phoenix to be ten times more popular than Goblet. One copy of Phoenix was sold for every 60 people living in the US and UK in the first 24 hours alone, and Barnes and Noble reported they sold nearly 80 copies a second.
The size of the initial printings was seen as unprecedented, but with 192 million of Rowling’s first four books published in 200 countries and 55 languages worldwide, their popularity is hard to deny. Not deterred by its size, Scholastic estimates that 5 million copies of the book were purchased by eager fans in the first 24 hours.īetween the two publishers, 13 million copies of the book were printed before its release and Scholastic has announced that it will print an additional 800,000 copies of the book in order to meet the large demand for the book, bringing their total number of books printed to 9.3 million. and runs a lengthy 870 pages (766 pages in the British edition), encompassing some 255,000 words. This number more than quadruples the first-day sales statistics of Phoenix’s predecessor, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which held the previous record with 372,775 copies sold its first day.Īmerican Potter publisher, Scholastic Inc., also released enormous first-day sales figures for what is considered to be the largest children’s book ever published. The book pulled down records as it was pulled off the shelves, becoming the fastest selling book to date.īloomsbury Publishing Plc., who publishes the Potter series, announced 1,777,541 copies of the latest book were sold in the first 24 hours.
Rowling’s magical Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, to readers of all ages. should be renamed the "wizarding hour" as bookstores around the world opened their doors to deliver the fifth installment of J.K. Phoenix Bewitches Readers, Flies off Bookshelves at Lightning Speedįorget the "witching hour," Jat 12:01 a.m. How long do you think it will take you to read all 896 pages, 38 chapters, and 255,000 words of the next book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
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