Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling Available July 21, 2007
March 2nd, 2007 by admin
The latest and the last book in the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” is still months away from its release date but is already a best-seller. Ever since the release date of the book was announced on February 1, 2007, fans of the series have been pre-ordering the book in droves.
On Amazon.com, a popular online bookseller, the book has been at the top or near the top of their best-selling items list since the first day they started taking preorders. When I looked today, the regular edition of the book was the number two seller, and the deluxe edition was number 20; although there have been days where the two editions of the book were the number one and number sellers (Amazon updates their bestselling items list daily). At the Barnes and Noble online store, the regular edition is currently the number two seller (this data is based on books that are available for preorder plus those already released and available for immediate shipment).
Amazon has said that pre-orders for Deathly Hallows “were 547 percent higher than for its predecessor” “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – and that book had 1.5 million copies preordered. Worldwide, preorder sales have topped 325 million copies with the book being printed in 64 different languages.
In addition, many bookstores are planning on staying open late on July 20, 2007 and into July 21, 2007 in anticipation of the long lines of people that will want to buy the book at one minute after midnight, on the 21st, which is when it officially goes on sale.
Some people are saying this book could become the best-selling book of all time.
J.K. Rowling is adamant that this will be the final book in the series. Fans are both excited and anxious to read it. Rowling has said that two characters will die in the final book and some are worried that Harry Potter himself will be one of those to die. Rowling has already killed off two beloved characters, Dumbledore and Sirius Black, in earlier books so fans are aware that no character is safe.
Are you one of those fans anxiously waiting for July 21 so you can crack open the book and enter the world of Harry Potter one final time?