Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, 1)

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Potter Casts Spell at World Premiere". BBC News. 15 November 2001. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007 . Retrieved 23 September 2007.

And for those “few who read”, book stores mostly got for them comics and graphic novels, which most of them created early this century. But the significant advice was to change her pen name cause young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman.. But the Harry Potter books were new. Brand new. They were shiny, they had never been touched by another reader. And Khanh was tempted. Dammann, Guy (18 June 2008). "Harry Potter breaks 400m in sales". London: Guardian News and Media Limited. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013 . Retrieved 17 October 2008.

Both of my kids were born after the whole Harry Potter series was released. They are now old enough to start appreciating the story so I thought it would be fun to read it out loud to them. While it did take us a while because, you know . . . life happens . . . we were able to find a few minutes every few nights or so to read a chapter or part of a chapter. It was really fun to see them getting into it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (PC)". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 25 March 2011 . Retrieved 26 May 2009.

At the midnight before 21 June 2007, Everywhere around the Globe, the scene of thousands of people lining in front of Book Stores was repeated...even Bigger than any time before.. And then there's the lead characters: Hermione, the young scholar who starts out prim and up-tight but soon becomes a true friend; Ron, the boy who has little money but who has an abundance of family and loyalty to his friends to make up for it; and then there's Harry, the boy who starts out sleeping in a closet and ends up being a hero. Harry is kind to those that deserve it, fearless when it counts the most, and wonderfully intelligent. What's not to love? The Harry Potter series has been used as a source of object lessons in educational techniques, sociological analysis and marketing.The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1997 by Bloomsbury. It was published in the United States the following year by Scholastic Corporation under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It won most of the British book awards that were judged by children and other awards in the US. The book reached the top of the New York Times list of best-selling fiction in August 1999 and stayed near the top of that list for much of 1999 and 2000. It has been translated into at least 73 other languages and has been made into a feature-length film of the same name, as have all six of its sequels. The novel has sold in excess of 120 million copies, making it the third best-selling book of all time. [1] [2] One of my first jobs was at a bookstore. When I was a kid my Mom would take me to the mall and I would spend tons of time hanging out at Waldenbooks (who here remembers Waldenbooks?) Right when I became legally old enough to work, I went in and submitted my application and a few weeks later I was selling literature to the masses. So, As more readers from this generation start to increase , Publishers and Book Stores start to promote for more books for those readers who are hungry for more.. Awards". Arthur A. Levine Books. Archived from the original on 29 April 2006 . Retrieved 21 May 2006. Harry Potter and the Mystery of the Author's Name". Cotsen Children's Library. Princeton University. 15 September 2014. Archived from the original on 14 October 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2014.

But all these effort didn't attract “more and more” of new youth readers as intended, it just made more and more books for those few who already reads.I'm going to keep this brief since there isn't much to say that hasn't already been said. *clears throat*

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 11 July 2009 . Retrieved 20 July 2007.Stephen Brown noted that the early Harry Potter books, especially Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, were a runaway success despite inadequate and poorly organised marketing. Brown advised marketing executives to be less preoccupied with rigorous statistical analyses and the "analysis, planning, implementation, and control" model of management. Instead he recommended that they should treat the stories as "a marketing masterclass", full of enticing products and brand names. [52] For example, a real-world analogue of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans was introduced under licence in 2000 by toymaker Hasbro. [52] [94] Release history [ edit ] Country I decided on the Stephen Fry version over Jim Dale simply because I can't abide by "Sorcerer's Stone." It's "Philosopher's Stone" for me or no stones at all! After nearly 9 months, I finally finished all five "A Song of Ice and Fire" audiobooks, I was going to run a poll on what I should listen to next but, c'mon, let's be real.