\'Harry Potter\' sales remain strong

July 27, 2000 - 8:20pm — AnnaKh

CNN.com has a story about the record breaking sales online. There was an Article on how well the Harry Potter books are still selling.

\"The U.S. and British publishers of \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,\" the fourth book in the series by British author J.K. Rowling, have already gone back to the presses for additional print runs.\"

\"Similarly, the book\'s U.S. publisher, New York-based Scholastic Inc., has ordered an additional 3 million copies, after having distributed all of its 3.8 million initial print run.

\"We have never sold this many books in such a short period of time before,\" said Becky Whidden, manager of The Children\'s Book Shop in Brookline, Massachusetts. \"With most books, we sell only five a week in hardcover.\"