Amazon.com has a 50 percent discount on the three Harry Potter books, which hover at the top of its "100 Hot Books" list. Barnes and Noble has deducted 30 percent from the cover price, which is the store's policy for books on The New York Times bestseller list.
Despite competition on-line, the Harvard Coop has seen Harry Potter fly off the shelves.
Since it was released on Oct. 5, the Barnes and Noble branch has sold 339 copies of The Sorcerer's Stone in paperback. 284 copies of the hardcover Prisoner of Azkaban sold in the same period.
"The fever has definitely caught on," says Steve Babbitt, the Coop's trade book manager. "She's been pretty popular all over the place."
Studying Divination
In his third year at Hogwarts, Harry and his two best friends--Ron and Hermione--take up the study of divination. The class teaches them to read tea leaves, palms and crystal balls.
Fans and interviewers only wish they had the same skill.
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