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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 6508916" data-attributes="member: 9327">When it was released? The Philosopher Stone's initial print run was 500 books, 300 of which went to Libraries. Are you sure you aren't thinking of the later US reprint under Sorcerer's Stone? It was already well established by that point with two UK printings. The US Scholastice edition sold about 11 million in 4 years (an impressive feat for YA fiction). Meanwhile, The Order of the Phoenix, the first book released after the first two movies, sold 5 million on its first day. Also not that around the 3rd or 4th movies, more people had purchased the later books than the earlier ones (cumulative, not year-by-year). Today, Sorceror's Stone ranks in the top ten books sold of all time, but the next HP book listed is The Half-Blood Prince, an indication that not as many people are reading the books in the middle.All of this is to say: people watched the movies, got interested, read the first book, then jumped to the book after the latest released movie.</blockquote>