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The record-breaking launch of Deathly Hallows

Титульна AI-концепція нічного запуску книжки біля книгарні / AI conceptual illustration of a nighttime book launch outside a bookshop.

Документальне фото черги до бібліотеки Sheppard AFB за примірниками сьомої книжки, 20 липня 2007 року / documentary photo of a queue at Sheppard AFB library for the seventh book, 20 July 2007. Original page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Release_of_Harry_Potter_Book_7_at_Sheppard_AFB_2007-07-20_1.jpg. Creator: A1C Jacob Corbin, U.S. Air Force. Public domain as a U.S. federal government work. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jacob Corbin. No edits.

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Титульна AI-концепція нічного запуску книжки біля книгарні / AI conceptual illustration of a nighttime book launch outside a bookshop.

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The seventh and final book in J. K. Rowling’s series, *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows*, was released in English on 21 July 2007. Its U.S. publisher, Scholastic, reported that 8.3 million copies were sold in the United States in the first 24 hours; in the United Kingdom, Bloomsbury reported 2,652,656 copies sold on the first day. These are country-specific figures, not a worldwide total. Before publication, media described the anti-leak security operation as costing about £10 million, but that was a contemporary press estimate, not an audited budget confirmed by the publisher.