More Potter Stats Nielsen Bookscan has tabulated first-day UK sales for Harry Potter of 2,652,656 copies. (Bookscan has near-total coverage of the UK market, unlike in the US, and added figures from BCA, Wilkinsons and Bloomsbury’s own site to their usual accounts.) For the previous Potter, Bookscan had tracked sales of 2,009,574 copies the first day. Tesco alone says they sold over 500,000 copies over the weekend, and Waterstone’s reports sales of 350,000 copies in the first day. Bloomsbury notes that they also sold 398,271 copies of the UK edition in Germany in the first 24 hours. Back in the […]
