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Article: Publishing's new adventure Surge of Harry Potter books may change industry
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 8, 1999
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As the Beatles once owned the music charts 30 years ago, Harry
Potter books now dominate the Amazon.com bestseller list, holding the
list's top three spots at times over the last week.
And that was before the third book in the series, "Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azkaban," went on sale at US bookstores today.
"I've never seen anything like this," says Terri Schmitz, owner of
the Children's Book Shop in Brookline.
Created by author J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter may be more than a
fictional boy wizard whose adventures beguile children and adults
alike; the Potter books are also an Internet phenomenon, one that may
change the way books are marketed and sold, and one that has given
some ...