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The third Pot­ter book was out before I read the first one, which I received in paper­back  as a give-away at the ALAN Break­fast.  After read­ing it on the plane home, I bought the other two books.  For Christ­mas, we bought a (at the time) com­plete sets for our fam­i­lies.  For books 4,5, and 6, we bought two copies each, as did all of the peo­ple we gave Harry to as gifts.  With Book 7, we’ll buy three copies because it’s not worth the bruises and scrapes to fight over who gets to read first.

So, from that one free give-away, Scholas­tic has sold dozens of hard­cover copies of HP, and many peo­ple have fallen in love a fic­tional world (odd, isn’t it, that Scholas­tic seems to have moved away from ‘viral’ mar­ket­ing of it’s YA books).  And peo­ple ask me why I’d bother to write stories.

Enjoy your read­ing this week­end, folks.

Cheers!