Harry Buyers Bought Widely Perhaps the best Harry Potter news for publishers other than Scholastic comes from this AP report, in which Barnes & Noble CEO Steve Riggion says that 40 percent of customers buying HALF-BLOOD PRINCE bought other things, too. Borders says that over half of their Harry customers bought something else at the same time. “Most of the additional items were non-bestsellers aimed at adults,” according to a spokesperson. But Wall Street analysts like Danielle Fox at Merrill Lynch — with proven expertise in tracking stock movements and the finer points of bookselling — tell the AP that […]
