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| 6/23/2003 |
Potter's book flown off the shelves
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8:51:14 AM
London, June 23 - More than a million copies of the latest book about boy wizard Harry Potter have flown off the shelves within 48 hours of its launch at midnight Saturday, the Times reported Monday.
"The only other time we see this kind of rush is at Christmas eve," Leslie Miles of Waterstones, one of Britain's biggest chains of bookshops, told the paper.
"There were well over a million copies sold by all retailers this weekend."
A total 190,000 copies of "Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix" were sold in Waterstones shops alone in two days, four times the number sold in one week of the previous volume, "Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire", which itself became the fastes t-selling book ever on the first weekend of its publication in July 2000.
Tesco supermarkets sold 317,400 copes of "Phoenix," the fifth in the series by J.K. Rowling, in the first 24 hours.
Tesco had already been the biggest British seller of "Goblet Of Fire".
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