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Harry Potter Cleans Hillary's Clock

Largest First Printing Ever - 8.5 Million Copies

         

digitalghost

4:56 pm on Jun 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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"To give you some sense of scale, the Hillary (Rodham Clinton) book, as big as that has been - and that has been very big - in the first week, we will probably sell about 20 times as many copies of the Harry Potter book."

[madison.com...]

jeremy goodrich

4:16 pm on Jun 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Wow, no wonder so many news stories have been running about that one. For me, I just can't bring myself to read one...

just think, if you can generate this kind of 'buzz' for your products & services, who would need a search engine? :)

miles

4:21 pm on Jun 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Last night I shot the single stack last night and someone piped up and said "What does harry potter and hillary's new book in common?" Well there were a few people including myself who said "its fiction." Well that was not the real answer but it was funny 5 people saying the samething.

atadams

8:27 pm on Jun 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Harry Potter Cleans [insert any author's name since the dawn of time] Clock.

Clark

8:31 pm on Jun 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Rowling made a BILLION bucks off this franchise. I'm going to start writing children's novels.

BTW, I was SHOCKED when I first read this thread. Then I started asking myself how the mods didn't catch it. What the hell is going on. Then I read it again. Clock. Oh.

digitalghost

10:14 pm on Jun 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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>>Harry Potter Cleans [insert any author's name since the dawn of time] Clock.

Not quite:

[ipl.org...]

Louis L'Amour is pretty popular too.

1983... L'Amour became America's most popular author. All of his novels, and he wrote over 100, are still in print. Total sales have topped 225,000,000. Between 1953 and 1971 thirty of his novels were turned into movies.

mil2k

6:14 am on Jun 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Then I read it again. Clock. Oh.

Pretty wild imagination eh? ;)

aravindgp

6:44 am on Jun 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Harry Potter seems to have sold a copy every 8 secs.
That's by far the best in any field of sales.

Gosh I could also have penned my billion fantasy ideas to make atleast a million.

It gives the whole world an uplift, a reason to smile, in the safe of downturn in economy.