Harry Potter’s Last Novel Reaches Calgary
July 23rd, 2007 posted by Justified
“Approximately 6700 books delivered by 90 drivers were expected to make there way into bookstore’s across Calgary,” said Canada Post Spokesperson Sandra Sobko.
However they were not to be sold until 12:01 Saturday morning. Even Canada Post drivers were strictly to stick to the schedule. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final book in the enormously popular series.
Thousands of enthusiastic Harry Potter fans showed up at the McNally Robinson Booksellers on Stephen Avenue Walk awaiting the 12:01 selling hour. Frenzied Potter fans that arrived at the celebration with costumes that inspired them from the novels themselves. Parties for the great release were held all over the city commemorate the final release. Although this novel is likely to become that fastest selling novel to hit stores in the first 24 hours.
Britains Bloomsbury said “3 million copies were sold in the first 24 hours,”
while Scholastic was said to report in a estimate of 8.3 million books had moved on the first day. Amazon.com reported an estimate 2.2 million pre-orders.
Thousands of Canada Post staff working overtime were expected to deliver 80,000 copies of the fames novel to over 35 cities. Two years ago, the sixth book of the series sold more than two million copies in Britain the first day it came out, and also another 650,000 in Canada.
Just weeks before the release, thousands of internet goers and newspapers say they have somehow grabbed a copy of the famous novel before the release date. With the thousands that have purchased the book, a mysterious amount of them couldn’t wait to get home to read about the novel. Most of them started reading the self proclaimed novel as soon as they bought it.
With the beginning date come and gone for the starting line of the Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, all of us sit and wonder what will the next venture be for Harry Potter and the author of this great known seller. Only time will tell as it did for Harry.
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