It's five or six years ago when I first heard of such a little figure called Harry Potter the Magician. With black-bordered glasses and pale face, the little boy conquered almost all the girls and some of the boys. More amazingly, young teachers started to talk about that tiny pupil in some magic school.
One year later, there was the movie. And then the second Harry Potter storybook. After that, the little hero visits the planet every year to give his charming strike to the bestseller market and to the thirsty readers.
As indicated by some data, the first five books sells 270m totally, which has occupied the third chair of the book sales ever. The first chair sits the Bible and the second the Selection of Chairman Mao. Jesus Christ, could you imagine such a world with such a incredible boy?
July 16, though with some email mistake, the sixth installment came up on the shelves. Only 5 hours later since published firstly, reader started to post book review online. In no more than one day, Harry Potter became the most heated keyword on the major search engines and the astonishing number of sales reached 6.9m, more than 250,000 sales an hour. Two days later, the English version boarded on China, as reported, Chinese kids showed equally great ardor to this British magic apprentice. By 6 am queues were forming in major cities of China, waiting to grab copies. And Chinese version is set to be published on Oct 15.
ZDNet, a technews providers, asked on July 18, "guess how many Skype users have 'Harry Potter,' 'Voldemort' names". The answer wasn't such a surprise: 45 million users and counting.
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