Final Harry Potter hits Polish shelves early
In some bookshops the seventh and last edition Harry Potter has appeared on shelves before the set release time of midnight Saturday, January 26.According to Media Rodzina, the book’s publisher in Poland, it can not do anything to prevent presales of the latest Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The Polish Press Agency (PAP) reports that Bronisław Kledzik from Media Rodzina said the agreement between the publisher and bookshops about the sale of the latest Harry Potter is a gentlemen’s agreement.
Media Rodzina has also donated editions of the final Harry Potter tome to public libraries up and down the country.
PAP reports that the new Harry Potter book has 784 pages in the Polish edition, with 650.000 having been published for the release in over five hundred bookstores around the country tonight.
There are just under five million copies of Harry Potter in Polish, with over four hundred million worldwide. The novels by J.K. Rowling have been translated into over fifty languages. (jb)
source: theNews.pl
For more details, check out some of the Harry Potter Polish websites at the below links.
fifty languages….thats cool
oh yeah i live in poland and i cant look forward going to the bookstore and buy 7th part. of course ive read it in english but reading in polish makes some differences =)