The Numbers: About the Harry Potter Books


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The Numbers: About the Books

Number of Harry Potter books in the series: 7

Total number of pages in the Harry Potter series: 4,224

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is currently the fastest selling book on the market. At the peak of its sales (first 24 hours) it sold 20 books per second worldwide. Beating the previous fastest selling book, which happened to be its predecessor Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix. The 5th Potter book had a peak sales record of 8 per second.

Number of languages into which the Harry Potter books have been translated: 65

Number of books in the series sold worldwide: more than 325 million and counting (pre-Deathly Hallows figure)

Number of pages in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: 784
Just the Facts
from Publisher's Weekly

Harry Potter fans12 million: First printing for Deathly Hallows

50,000: First printing for Sorcerer's Stone

$34.95: Cover price for Deathly Hallows

$22.99: Cover price for Sorcerer's Stone

28 million: Total copies in print of Sorcerer's Stone, hardcover and paperback

250,000: First printing for Chamber of Secrets

24 million: Total copies in print of Chambers of Secrets, hardcover and paperback

19 million: Total copies in print of Prisoner of Azkaban

19 million: Total copies in print of Goblet of Fire

16 million: Total copies in print of Order of the Phoenix

15.5 million: Total copies in print of Half-Blood Prince

10.8 million: First printing for Half-Blood Prince hardcover

2.7 million: Second printing for Half-Blood

hardcover 2 million: First printing for Half-Blood

paperback 121.5 million: Total copies in print of Potter 1–6

$815 million: Total revenue generated by Potter for Scholastic, fiscal 1999– 2006



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Mrs.Snalfoy HP by Numbers 1 Aug 2 2007, 9:15 PM EDT by ahrynaan112
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I guess you can always learn something. Thanks for this! Seems like Harry won't be going anywhere for a long time, no matter how many people have read the last page of the last book by now.
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