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Article: 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' Sets New Record at Amazon with More Than 1.4 Million Advance Orders Worldwide; Surpasses 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' as Amazon's Largest New Product Release Ever.
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- July 12, 2005
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SEATTLE -- Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN):
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With four days remaining before its July 16 release, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the sixth book in the Harry Potter series, has already surpassed "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (Book 5) as Amazon's largest new product release ever.
The newest installment in J.K. Rowling's spellbinding Harry Potter series is breaking records at Amazon, with more than 1.4 million copies of the U.S. and U.K. editions of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Book 6) ordered to date on the company's retail Web sites worldwide, which include www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, ...