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Harry Potter off the charts, for once
By Carl Hoover
| Monday, May 5, 2008, 02:55 PM
This snuck in under the radar late last week, but the New York Times Book Review this weekend didn’t have a Harry Potter title in its top 10 for the first time in a decade.
It’s been about a year since the last Harry Potter title - the series’ closing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - and during the period between that and the first Harry Potter book, author J.K. Rowling has sold some 375 million copies of her books. They sold so well that the Times spun off a children’s best-seller chart to open the adult list to new titles (at one time, three of the Times’ Top 10 best-sellers were Harry Potter books). They sold so well that Rowling became richer than the Queen of England.
It’s the end of an era to some extent, but not necessarily for long: the next Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, arrives in movie theaters in November. Want to bet that the upcoming movie will boost book sales again?
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