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16:08, July 21, 2007 |
Thousands of Harry Potter fans in China swarmed into book stores in Beijing on Saturday to get the seventh and final volume of the boy wizard''s adventures after standing in line for several hours from the mid-night.
Chinese book stores opened their doors for sales of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" at 7:01 a.m., Beijing time, together with the world.
More than 200 books have been sold in Wangfujing Book Store within 40 minutes. The Beijing Book Building has sold 2,301 books till 6:00 p.m. Saturday, statistics show, 700 books more than the first-day sales of the sixth version.
"The previous versions did very well here, and we expect the seventh book to create a new selling record among the Harry Potter series," said Yang Xinyuan, manager of the original version books department of the Beijing Book Building.
"I didn''t have the opportunity to get the previous books at the same time with other readers in the world, so I have to catch the last chance to read it at the first time," said Zhu Shengtao, 19, who arrived at the Beijing Book Building at around 9:00 p.m. Friday.
Liu Jiangeng, a junior college student, was lucky enough to be the pioneer leading the queue by arriving at the Wangfujing Book Store at 8:00 p.m. Friday.
"I spent the rest hours wandering around the store, waiting for the sky lit up. I don''t feel tired," he said.
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