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05-21-2005, 02:31 PM
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Amazon.co.uk have announced that they've received 200,000 pre-orders for ' Half-Blood Prince' resulting in a £2million profit.
Amazon.co.uk group product manager Rakhi Parekh said: “Our customers are clearly incredibly excited about the sixth book and we are delighted that they’ve pre-ordered more than 200,000 copies through our web site.”
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05-21-2005, 02:42 PM
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| DA's Ultimate Fan Firecrab
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: living in the burrow while I try to find a teaching job in PA, USA
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Wow, that's a lot of pre-orders! And that's only through Amazon alone! Can you imagine how many have been ordered world-wide through all the stores and websites! Wow! I can't imagine what the sales will be like after it comes out! So impressive! Just goes to show how many people read HP! Go HP!!!!!
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05-21-2005, 02:43 PM
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| Firecrab
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 937
| many, many books... So, people do read. I'm not very surprised, thought. |
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05-21-2005, 02:47 PM
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| Mooncalf
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Wow that's a lot!
Thanks for the info...
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05-21-2005, 02:52 PM
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| Jobberknoll
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Thats very much!
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05-21-2005, 03:02 PM
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| Jarvey
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 559
Hogwarts RPG Name: ginny Fourth Year Ministry RPG Name:
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OMG dats a lot.....just amazon dat too.........
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05-21-2005, 03:29 PM
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| Billywig
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In a Sanrio store spending big bucks!
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Cocoa Third |
Thats a whole lot of books!!
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05-21-2005, 03:53 PM
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| Jarvey
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Marietta, Georgia!
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| wow and only on amazon...*imagines infinite numbers of preorders* |
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05-21-2005, 04:12 PM
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| Billywig
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: TeXaS!!! UsA!!!
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wow!!thats a lot of books!
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05-21-2005, 05:33 PM
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| Guest |
Wow thats alot of books!!! But the HP books are amazing. i cant say im surprised
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05-22-2005, 02:05 AM
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| Guest |
Gah I'm always out of the know. There are pre-orders. Lovely now I'll have longer to wait... Oh well.
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05-22-2005, 03:23 AM
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| Firecrab
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Nowhere... || Thanx
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Cool! thanx for the info! But what I am waiting for is the book to be released in spanish... I am from South America u know? and those books in spanish can take really long to come to my country... bummer |
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05-22-2005, 03:29 AM
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| Knarl
Join Date: May 2004 Location: w/ Derek Jeter! De
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that's alla copies. How many were pre-ordered here? (U.S.)
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05-22-2005, 08:32 AM
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| Crup
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK
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600,000 was the last figure from Amazon.com ^^^
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05-22-2005, 02:26 PM
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| Firecrab
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: massachusetts
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wow!! that's awesome!! in my opinion every person should read Harry Potter...the people who havent dont know what they're missing!!
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05-22-2005, 02:31 PM
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| Imp
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Awesome! I'm one of those people, although I don't know if we pre-ordered form Amazon.com or not....*ponders this*
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05-22-2005, 04:51 PM
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| Murtlap
Join Date: May 2005
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| :o That's a lot of pre-orders! Wow.
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05-22-2005, 07:23 PM
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| Imp
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In a lack-of-sleep induced fantasy world of TERROR
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The poor postmen!!!
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05-23-2005, 01:08 AM
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| Gnome
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sitting in a dark room in disbelief of book 6 and waiting for film 4-EEK!!
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wow-thats loads-not all that surprised tho- i mean its No1 on my list of books 2 read this summer.
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05-23-2005, 06:04 PM
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| Snidget
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Middle of nowhere
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WOW! How much is 2 million pounds (I'm assuming that's what that symbol stands for) in dollars?
Thanks for info
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05-25-2005, 02:04 PM
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| Band Geek Puffskein
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a small town which is never really mentioned
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I'm glad alot of people love HP...
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05-28-2005, 05:26 AM
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| Dugbog
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
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I pre-ordered my HBP copy, but I didn't order it from Amazon....
I hope a lot more people pre-order the books and make HBP more successful.
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