It’s unclear if publishers will bounce back by year’s end, but there are encouraging signs. There have been some prominent best sellers, including “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has given US-based Scholastic Corp a huge boost, as the company has today posted a first quarter revenue increase of 48%. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' helped add almost $70 million to Scholastic’s trade division in the quarter ended August 31, and drove a 104% jump in revenue in the company’s children’s book publishing and distribution group. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) has overtaken Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) to claim the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a seventh week, as the film tie-in edition of Hawkins’ unstoppable thriller rose to third place. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling and Jack Thorne’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) has held on to the number one spot for a sixth week—by the tips of its fingers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) has racked up five weeks as the Official UK Top 50 number one—but the gap is closing. According to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market, the playscript sold 36,485 copies for £455,824, just 7,503 units above runner-up The Girl on the Train... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) has snatched the Official Top 50 number one for a fourth week, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paula Hawkins is back on top of the iBooks bestseller list with 'The Girl on the Train,' pushing J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' down into the #2 slot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' continues its domination of the iBooks chart as it nets another #1 slot, followed by Amy Schumer and Paula Hawkins. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) once again easily triumphed at the top of the charts, shifting 86,525 units last week through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
South Korea becomes the latest country to get the Harry Potter series of seven books and the new 'Cursed Child' playscript in ebook format. This time, they're in both Korean and English. The post Harry Potter Ebooks Released in South Korea appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
German readers were as wrapped up in Pottermania as readers in America and England in July, as the eighth installment in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2, took the top of the fiction chart in Germany at the end of July. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
J.K. Rowling is revealing more details about the school of witchcraft and wizardry in new ebooks. The books follow the July debut of the West End play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
J.K. Rowling and Paula Hawkins kept their #1 and #2 slots, respectively, on the iBooks bestsellers list as 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' and 'The Girl on the Train' continue to captivate audiences. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) has once again taken the Official Top 50 number one spot, with 168,389 copies sold for £1.86m in its second week on sale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In its debut week, print units sales for the #1 book in the country, ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2,’ are more than double those for the next 99 books combined. Plus Colson Whitehead’s ’The Underground Railroad' gets the Oprah nod and the #3 slot in Hardcover Fiction, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mass merchandisers accounted for 33% of the first week sales of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 & 2,' according to Nielsen BookScan. The uptick was a much needed boost for the embattled retail channel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shocking no one, 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' stays #1 more than a week after its much-ballyhooed release. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling and Jack Thorne’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) has become the fourth fastest-selling title of all time, with 847,886 copies worth £8.76m shifted through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market last week, making it 2016's biggest selling title of the year in just... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter's appeal continues, with huge sales numbers coming out from the release of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,' a book version of the script used in the West End play. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]