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12-24-2004, 11:27 AM
| | |  Half-Blood Prince is good for business!
MSNBC has an article quoting an official from Barnes & Noble detailing how the announcement of the release date for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (July the 16th 2005), the sixth Potter book in the series, has had a positive impact on business. Quote:
The news should be celebrated by Rowling’s millions of fans and by the struggling publishing industry. Competition for sales began almost immediately, with Amazon.com and the superstore chains Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Borders Group, Inc. announcing 40 percent discounts on the book’s $29.99 suggested retail price. By Tuesday, “Half-Blood Prince” was already No. 1 on Barnes & Noble.com’s best seller list and was in the top 10 on Amazon.com.
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“Sales from the last Harry Potter book grossed as much as a major Hollywood movie in its first week of release,” Steve Riggio, chief executive officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc., said in a statement Tuesday.
“We expect this next book in the series to make publishing history once again. We’ve already collected 500,000 e-mail requests from our customers waiting to be notified of the date of the next book so this announcement is very welcome news for readers everywhere.”
In the meantime, stock prices for the publishers of the Harry Potter books went up too as a result of the release date announcement. Bloomsbury stocks were the highest in several years by as much as 8.2%. Scholastic prices jumped up 4 % in early morning trading.
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12-24-2004, 09:23 PM
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| | Hippogriff
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yay!!! go HBP!!
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12-24-2004, 09:30 PM
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| | Bicorn
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"....We’ve already collected 500,000 e-mail requests from our customers waiting to be notified of the date of the next book so this announcement is very welcome news for readers everywhere.”
wow 500,000!
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12-24-2004, 09:41 PM
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| | Plimpy
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wow! cool.
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12-26-2004, 09:42 AM
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| | Bicorn
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Well the only problem i say is that theirs only 38 chapters.. Also within bbcworld.com well on Television i had seen that Jk Rowling had finished Book 7 too..
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12-26-2004, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by dagger Well the only problem i say is that theirs only 38 chapters.. Also within bbcworld.com well on Television i had seen that Jk Rowling had finished Book 7 too.. If you are referring to HBP, Rowling says it will be less than 38 chapters.
Already finished 7th? That is hard to believe. I don't think it is possible.
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12-26-2004, 08:31 PM
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| | Poltergeist
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^ Yeah, she's only finished the last chapter of book 7. That's more likely to be what they heard.
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12-27-2004, 07:30 AM
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| String Queen Bicorn
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Finished up only on the last chapter of book 7? That, I find, is a bit more believable. ^^
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12-27-2004, 08:40 PM
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| | Flobberworm
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HBP is being released July 16th, 2005.
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12-29-2004, 08:49 AM
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| | Poltergeist
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Originally Posted by SapphireMisty Finished up only on the last chapter of book 7? That, I find, is a bit more believable. ^^ No, she's completed the last chapter and has done for years. It`s in a yellow folder, she showed it on TV once.
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