The book was just the script for a stage production which is currently playing in London. The list of best-selling books is compiled from the number of first editions sold, both in print and via Kindle. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was the most anticipated book of the year, breaking pre-order records months before its release,” said Amazon Senior Book Editor Chris Schluep in a statement.
“The power of Potter is still strong, and readers of all ages can’t get enough of Hogwarts. Cursed Child also topped the list of best-selling kids and teens books, the most-gifted books of the year, and the most wished-for books of the year. On Amazon’s list of best-selling new releases, Cursed Child was followed by When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi in the number two spot, and The Whistler by John Grisham in third. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was Amazon’s best-seller, to the surprise of no one.
The movie franchise has grossed more than $7 billion worldwide.Will Harry Potter’s reign ever end? Amazon has unveiled its top-selling books of 2016, and the boy who lived topped them all. More than 450 million copies of the seven original Harry Potter books have been sold worldwide in 79 languages. It opens ahead of the November movie version of Rowling's Potter spinoff book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," and follows the opening in April of a second Harry Potter attraction within a theme park, this time at Universal Studios in Los Angeles.
The play is already sold out through May 2017. Rowling agreed to publish the script to meet public demand after appeals from fans who couldn't get to London to see the play, publishers said earlier this year.
"I could easily see young fans adapting to the format and using it to act out the play on their own." "For the millions of us who are Harry Potter fans, a new Hogwarts story is a huge event," said Amazon Books editor Seira Wilson. pre-order in print and on Kindle e-book of 2016. It did not give sales figures but said the book was expected to its biggest seller of 2016, and that midnight parties are planned in stores around the nation on Saturday night.Īmazon Books said "Cursed Child" was already its top U.S. company's most pre-ordered book since 2007's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" - the final book in the original series. Rowling, is set 19 years after "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." It features a grown-up Potter as an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic and father of three children who is grappling with his past.īarnes and Noble said in a statement that "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" was the U.S. The play, based on an idea by British author and Potter creator J.K.
A script rather than a narrative novel, it is being published a day after the official opening of the London stage production of the same name.
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is billed as the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and is to be published at midnight on July 31. Nine years after the publication of the seventh and last book in the best-selling boy wizard series, pre-orders for the script of a new, sold-out London play is the most pre-ordered book since 2007 in the United States, retail book sellers Barnes & Noble said on Monday. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Harry Potter is casting a spell - again - over the publishing industry.