Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picks up after that moment,” wrote Rowling on Pottermore. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isnt much easier now that he is an overworked. “Readers and moviegoers last saw Harry waving off his children at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts, in the epilogue to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The play and new book pick up where readers left off in the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. While this book is technically not the 8th book in the series, it is the 8th original Harry Potter story published in book form. “Print and digital editions will publish simultaneously after the play’s world premiere this summer, and will comprise of the version of the play script at the time of the play’s preview performances,” wrote Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling - is the script for the play of the same name premiering at London’s Palace Theatre on July 30. The book - written by written by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany and J.K. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is already topping the bestseller lists, according to the two distributors of the book: Amazon and Barnes & Nobles. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child continues to be produced by Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions in London, Broadway and all. I can confirm that these rumors are absolutely NOT TRUE, the person said. Scholastic called the sales figures “unprecedented for a script book.The newest addition to the Harry Potter family is already breaking records. Sorry Potterheads Representatives of Cursed Child told EW, a media house that the speculation is not right. In the US, publisher Scholastic announced that more than 2m copies of the Cursed Child were sold in the first 48 hours, from an initial US print run of 4.5m copies. There’s no doubt about it this will be our biggest book of the year.”
“By the end of this first week, we expect to exceed The Lost Symbol sales and to match the lifetime sales of our bestselling script book ever, An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley. “After just two days’ sales, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is already our biggest-selling hardback since Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol in 2009,” said Waterstones buying director Kate Skipper. The magazine predicted that if the playscript continues to sell at this rate, it will become the title with the second biggest single-week sales, behind Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which sold 1.8m copies of the children’s edition, and 780,000 copies of the adult edition in July 2007. The record was previously held by EL James’s erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which sold 664,478 copies in a week in 2012.
Little, Brown said they made the Cursed Child play the fastest-selling playscript ever, and the fastest-selling book published this decade.Īccording to the Bookseller magazine, the sales of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have already beaten the biggest single-week sale of any title this decade. Publisher Little, Brown, which released the script of the eighth Harry Potter story at one minute past midnight on Sunday 31 July, announced the sales on Wednesday morning. JK Rowling has proved that she still has the magic touch after the script of her dramatised story, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, sold more than 680,000 print copies in the UK in just three days - making it the fastest-selling book since the last Harry Potter title.
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