While the rest of the world wide web is gushing about the iPhone, here’s a record being made over at the biggest online retailer’s side of the web.
The seventh and final installment in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has become Amazon’s most pre-ordered product now with over 1.6 million copies bought even before the official book release on July 21, a clear indication that the whole world is watching out for the most-awaited ending of the boy wizard’s story that’s become a part of not only J.K. Rowling’s but everyone’s imagination.
The demand for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” is said to have passed the record of the previous Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” which got 1.5M pre-ordered copies sold.
Amazon expects that the number of orders for the seventh book would rise by “many more hundreds of thousands of copies” within the coming weeks.
Originally posted on July 2, 2007 @ 8:41 am