Harry Potter sales surge

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"Bloomsbury said sales of the wizarding stories had jumped 35pc in the first half of the year – a quarter of a century since Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was first released."

How satisfying.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/10/26/harry-potter-sales-surge-despite-jk-rowling-boycott-efforts/

I just got the latest illustrated one.

Thank you JKR.

As Ron would say 'bloody brilliant!'

Streisand effect?

Good.

Is this the 3rd book? I've got the 1st 2.

3rd

Good! She deserves it, and every Penny she makes from it- she’s brilliant!

Off to look for the 3rd then. 👀

Great!

Can't have too many copies, can you?

And there's always a.lovely new generation who need the joy of ownership too!!

Regardless of anyone's opinion on JK Rowling, denying kids the absolute joy of reading the HP series is just bloody stupid.

Got the audiobook of the first one on now for bedtime, and two versions of the books at home. Plus most of the Lego sets and the X box game. My DDs are obsessed and my DH is very happy to engage them in HP conversation at every opportunity. I need to swot up!

How does it keep selling? Doesn't everyone already own a copy?

The illustrated Order of the Phoenix was just released. Is there another illustrated range I don't know about?

I don't and have never even picked a copy of one of the books up !

I've just bought the illustrated Order of the Phoenix for the dc to add to their collection.

Not a HP fan but buying all the Robert Galbraith books. In hardback.

www.amazon.co.uk/Hp-Order-Phoenix-Ill-ed/dp/1408845687/ref=asc_df_1408845687/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=570408701273&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16543868858854328434&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006853&hvtargid=pla-1629544028139&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

That one...

Children are learning to read every day.

I’m so shocked she hasn’t been cancelled by this tiny minority of idiots. Shocked. Ha.

The books will never lose popularity.

The original Harry Potter books have just been put into Kindle Unlimited too, which will have given them a huge visibility boost on Amazon. When I was browsing the other day she held 8 out of the top 10 spots on their fiction chart - the latest Strike novel is in 2nd place and Richard Osman's novels at 1 and 10, every other book was Harry Potter.

I've just bought DD her first copy at aged 7. I've read them but they were library/kindle books. I wanted her to have her very own.

@NC12345665 have you seen the Minalima versions, they are amazing. There are only for the first two books at the moment though.

I am currently terming in a major city in Western Europe and have been commenting all week about how much HP merch we are seeing everywhere.

mainly Gryffindor with a bit of a segue into Slytherin.

But tbh it is all a glorious sight.

JKR is the Queen of everywhere.

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