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Article: Amazon.com Hosts the Harry Potter Magical Candy Contest Celebrating The Release of Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.

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September 1, 1999
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SEATTLE, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading online retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), announced today the Harry Potter Magical Candy Contest, to celebrate Scholastic's U.S. release of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on September 8, 1999. Amazon.com is inviting children ages 6 to 13 to invent a wizard candy "so wonderful, so fabulously strange, with such magical powers that it would impress even Harry Potter."

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The grand prize includes $4,000 in books for the winner's school library, a gift certificate from Amazon.com for books, toys, music or videos; and a Be a Wizard magic kit, ...

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