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Article: More than 70 million buy 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'

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Harry Potter has cast a spell on readers throughout the world, who purchased 72.1 million copies of the boy wizard's final adventure, an industry data service said Monday. Nielsen BookScan said the figures for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" were provisional; full and final figures were due to be released today.

The company said 2.6 million copies of "Deathly Hallows" were sold in Britain in the 24 hours after it went on sale at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. The figure breaks the previous record of just over 2 million copies held by the previous Potter volume, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." It ...

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