'Potter' audio books pass million mark
October 30, 2003 at 1:47 PM ET
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Wizard News (via U TV)
If you thought only the Harry Potter books were popular, you may be surprised at the popularity of the audio versions
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The Harry Potter yarns have become the first literary series to sell more than a million audio books in the UK, the BBC said today.
The unabridged CD and cassette recordings run to a colossal length of more than 80 hours, each read by Stephen Fry.
Steven Edney, sales director of BBC Audiobooks, commented: "Harry Potter has broken all the rules in the audio category."
Helen Nicoll of production company HNP, which created the recordings, said: "When we published the first book we said that if we made 10,000 sales of such a long unabridged book, that would be a fantastic achievement.
"To make a million sales is almost unbelievable."