Random Children's Big Week
by Shannon Maughan and Diane Roback, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 4/28/2005
It's been a good couple of days for children's books at Random House. This morning it announced that its Listening Library audio imprint has landed the rights to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, after earlier in the week announcing a big first printing for the newest Christopher Paolini title, in the Children's Books group.
Meanwhile, another unusually large first printing was announced in the children's world this week when Knopf Books for Young Readers set a one-million copy printing for Eldest, the second book in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance trilogy, due out August 23. Knopf will also send the author on a 15-city tour for the book, which will be released simultaneously on audio from Listening Library.
Paolini's first book, Eragon, became an instant phenomenon in 2003, when Knopf picked up the self-published title by the teenage author. Over 1.5 million copies have sold in the U.S. and Canada, with the paperback releasing this week, and shipping 500,000 copies of the title have already shipped.
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