Amazon Deepens ‘Potter’ Discount

By Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly, 5/8/2007 8:33:00 AM

Amazon said this morning that it is shaving another dollar off its already reduced price of $18.99 for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, effective immediately. The $17.99 price is a 49% discount off the list price of $34.99. Amazon announced the extra discount at the same time it said the it has received more than one million pre-orders for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The seventh and final book in the bestselling children’s fantasy series, Deathly has crossed the million mark 11 weeks sooner than the last Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.