More Harry Potter Novels Printed

Posted on July 3, 2003

The world will not run out of Harry Potter novels. As supplies run low Scholastic will always print more. Scholastic announced that the Company is going back to press for a third printing of 800,000 copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which will be shipped to retailers over the next month. J.K. Rowling's fifth Harry Potter book hit bookstores nationwide at midnight on June 21, 2003 and sold an unprecedented 5 million copies in the first 24 hours, breaking all publishing records.

The 800,000 copies is in addition to Scholastic's record breaking first print-run of 6.8 million and a second printing of 1.7 million copies, bringing the total in print number to 9.3 million copies.