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Post subject: World gears up for Potter release
 Posted: Jul 20, 2007 - 01:07 PM
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awaiting the midnight launch of the seventh and final book in the wizard series. Devotees have been queuing outside one bookshop in London for three days to be among the first to get their hands on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Author JK Rowling will read excerpts to 500 fans at midnight and sign books at the Natural History Museum in London. A decade after the first book, Harry Potter has become a global phenomenon with 325 million books already sold. That number will grow as millions of copies of the new novel are snapped up at the weekend.
It is being released simultaneously in 93 countries, with a print run of 12 million in the US alone and more than 2.2 million ordered in advance from internet retailer Amazon.
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