Post by KoNeko on Sept 23, 2005 10:06:01 GMT -5
We used to have a topic like this, but I thought we could use a thread to collect all the articles we could find about HP from all over the world! Here's one to start:
Harry Potter trumps all at U.S. best seller awards
Friday Sep 23 10:32 AEST
From correspondents in New York
J.K. Rowling's latest book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" sold more than twice as many copies in the United States in its first two weeks as any other author's book in a whole year.
The latest in Rowling's series about a boy wizard won the Best Seller Award for the top-selling book in America in the year to August 1, even though it only went on sale on July 16.
Its tally of 6,397,000 copies was more than double the nearest challenger, Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," which sold 2,261,000, according to Nielsen BookScan, the co-sponsor of the awards, which were presented overnight in New York.
Organizers said the awards, which were presented for the first time this year, are the first to be based entirely on consumer sales.
"No politics, no judges' panels. They are very simply a true celebration of consumer choice," said Jerome Kramer, editor of The Book Standard, which presented the awards.
Awards were presented in 100 categories, from the mainstream to the more esoteric such as "Romance: Time Travel," "Self Help: Sexual Instruction" and "Mystery and Detective: Women Sleuths."
In the main categories, "The Da Vinci Code" won the award for adult fiction and Brown's previous novel "Angels & Demons" was the best-selling mass market paperback.
Jon Stewart and the writers of "The Daily Show" won the adult non-fiction award for their spoof textbook "America (The Book)," which sold 1,544,000 copies.
Among the other winners were Rick Warren's "The Purpose-Driven Life" in the adult religion category with sales of 1,329,000 copies, and Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" which was the best-selling debut novel.
Harry Potter trumps all at U.S. best seller awards
Friday Sep 23 10:32 AEST
From correspondents in New York
J.K. Rowling's latest book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" sold more than twice as many copies in the United States in its first two weeks as any other author's book in a whole year.
The latest in Rowling's series about a boy wizard won the Best Seller Award for the top-selling book in America in the year to August 1, even though it only went on sale on July 16.
Its tally of 6,397,000 copies was more than double the nearest challenger, Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," which sold 2,261,000, according to Nielsen BookScan, the co-sponsor of the awards, which were presented overnight in New York.
Organizers said the awards, which were presented for the first time this year, are the first to be based entirely on consumer sales.
"No politics, no judges' panels. They are very simply a true celebration of consumer choice," said Jerome Kramer, editor of The Book Standard, which presented the awards.
Awards were presented in 100 categories, from the mainstream to the more esoteric such as "Romance: Time Travel," "Self Help: Sexual Instruction" and "Mystery and Detective: Women Sleuths."
In the main categories, "The Da Vinci Code" won the award for adult fiction and Brown's previous novel "Angels & Demons" was the best-selling mass market paperback.
Jon Stewart and the writers of "The Daily Show" won the adult non-fiction award for their spoof textbook "America (The Book)," which sold 1,544,000 copies.
Among the other winners were Rick Warren's "The Purpose-Driven Life" in the adult religion category with sales of 1,329,000 copies, and Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" which was the best-selling debut novel.