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More than 225,000 fans attended midnight book release parties at Borders and Waldenbooks stores nationwide

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Borders Group, Inc. today announced that its approximately 1,000 Borders and Waldenbooks stores throughout the U.S. and its Borders.com site sold more than a quarter million copies of Stephenie Meyer's "Breaking Dawn" in total on its first day of sales, Saturday, Aug. 2. The book was so hotly anticipated that the number of pre-orders the retailer received for "Breaking Dawn" was second only in its history to the Harry Potter books. "Breaking Dawn" is the fourth and final installment in Meyer's "Twilight" ...

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