Last Harry Potter book breaks sales record · 2007-07-23 19:42
The seventh and last novel in the Harry Potter series is set to be confirmed as the world's fastest-selling book.
In the US, an estimated 8.3 million copies were sold in the first 24 hours, according to publisher Scholastic. That beats the previous record, held by the sixth Potter book, which sold 6.9 million in its first day in the US.
UK sales figures are due later, but WH Smith said it sold 15 copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows per second when it came out on Saturday.
A spokeswoman at Bloomsbury, the book's British publisher, told the Observer newspaper that sales of the final instalment could reach three million copies in the first 24 hours, up from two million for 2005's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
UK supermarket chain Asda also confirmed that Deathly Hallows was selling twice as quickly as its predecessor, BBC informs.
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