UK wizard book proves to be fastest ever seller

Calcutta News.Net
Saturday 9th August, 2008

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The UK's fastest-ever selling collection of short stories is a book featuring a prequel to the Harry Potter novels.

'What's Your Story?' contains 13 postcard-sized tales by authors including Potter author, J K Rowling, Tom Stoppard, Irvine Welsh and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.

The short stories, are set three years before Harry Potter's birth.

More than 10,000 copies were sold on its first day of publication with some bookstores sold out by lunchtime Friday.

The magnitude of sales has made it the fastest selling short story collection since records began in 1994.

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