Changes in the 'World's Largest Bookstore' designation reveal a dramatic shift in book retailing trends. Independent retail bookselling is beating the biggest retail bookstore chains, and the Internet is beating brick-and-mortar bookstores in some very important industry-disrupting ways. So What Is the World's Largest Bookstore? Depending on how you measure it, several bookstores can claim some right to the title of 'World's Largest Book Store.' Large can be measured by store size, retail sales floor square footage, number of titles, shelf space, and even more measurements. A frequently asked question from retail industry analysts, experts, investors, professionals, and enthusiasts is “Which book store is the largest in the world and where is it located? The answer is.it depends. Is It Barnes & Noble? In terms of square footage, the Barnes and Noble flagship bookstore located at 105 5th Avenue in New York City once indisputably laid claim to the 'World's Largest Bookstore' title—at least until the store was closed in January 2014. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this Barnes & Noble store covered 154,250 square feet, 12.87 miles of shelving, and offered the following features: • The Barnes & Noble College store • A large selection of used academic, medical, and law textbooks • Greeting cards • Toys and games • An in-store coffee shop serving Starbucks coffee on the second floor • Free Wi-Fi But even while the Barnes & Noble flagship store was claiming the 'World's Largest' title, another bookstore was also advertising itself as the world’s largest bookstore. But then this store also closed in 2014 shortly after the Barnes & Noble flagship store closed. Editorial Reviews. From School Library Journal. Gr 4–6—The 2017 update to this ever-popular title provides readers with recently certified gaming records and much more. Fourteen categories. First published in 1955, the annual GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS book has gone on to become one of the best-selling titles of all time, with 2.8 million. According to World’s Biggest Bookstore, its Toronto store had the largest number of titles under one brick-and-mortar retail roof. It never advertised exactly how many titles it offered, except to say that it was “over a million.” Powell's Books Founded in 1971, Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon doesn’t dispute the claims of Barnes & Noble or World’s Biggest Bookstore. Powell’s stakes its claim to the “world’s largest” designation by stating that it is “the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world.” This has been an unsupported claim, but it is also an undisputed claim so apparently there are no other independent bookstores that think they are big enough to force the issue. With 68,000 square feet and 1.6 acres of retail sales floor, Powell's City of Books, located at 1005 West Burnside Street in Portland, reportedly has over 1 million books on its shelves and it purchases 3,000 used books each day. Although the Guinness Book of World Records no longer has an official listing for the 'world's largest bookstore,' Powell's can validly lay claim to the title in every way that 'largest' has been measured in the past. The largest store in the Barnes & Noble chain is now reportedly its Union Square store in New York, which is smaller than Powell's, measuring just 62,000 square feet. What About Amazon? There is one more legitimate 'world's largest' title claim when it comes to books and retailing—the 'World's Largest Books Retailer,' which isn't really a 'bookstore' at all. It's estimated that has 3.4 million books on its virtual shelves at any given time, which is more than three times the number of titles claimed by Powell's. It's also estimated that a new book title is added to Amazon's cyber bookshelves every five minutes. Moving even farther away from traditional brick-and-mortar retailing, Amazon can stake a claim to being the 'World's Largest Bookseller' in another respect. It's the world's largest retail seller of digital. An estimated 74 percent of all ebooks purchased in the U.S. Were purchased from Amazon.com in 2015, and 71 percent of all U.S. Dollars spent on ebooks were spent on Amazon.com. Amazon's Kindle gets most of the credit for its dominance in retail ebook sales. Sixty-five percent of all ebook sales published by traditional publishers were purchased through the Amazon Kindle store in 2015. Amazon's only real competitors are the Apple iBooks store, the Barnes & Noble Nook store, the Kobo Book store, and Google Play. Despite its complete dominance of book sales and digital ebooks, Amazon's customer-centric founder Jeff Bezos hasn't been content with its non-physical success in book retailing. The grand opening of the first took place in at the company's headquarters located in Seattle, Washington in 2015. If the endeavor proves to be successful over the long haul, it's conceivable that Amazon will also lay claim to the title of 'World's Largest U.S. Retail Bookstore Chain.' By the Numbers The largest U.S. Retail bookstore chains had these total store counts as of the end of 2016: • Barnes & Noble: 640 retail book stores in 50 states • Books-A-Million: 260 retail book stores in 32 states • Half Price Books: 120 stores in 18 states. The NOOK Book (eBook) of the Guinness World Records 2017 by Guinness World Records at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $25 or more! Foyles is one of the largest retailers of books in London and their Charing Cross store has the largest selection of books under one roof in the UK.
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An independent bookseller is urging readers to dump their Kindle e-readers as Amazon makes its biggest push yet into the Australian market. Amazon launched its Australian Kindle store Wednesday, offering local e-book content through the local domain name the retailer has owned since 2004. Until now local e-books have only been available through the global giant's US or UK online address. • SHARE • • • Link Not an open market: Australian independent booksellers are campaigning against the Kindle, which is locked to Amazon's e-books. Photo: Chris Ratcliffe Among the 2 million digital books on sale include,,, Di Morrissey's Tears of the Moon and Graeme Simision's The Rosie Project, with prices ranging from $0.99 to $17.99. • Sydney bookshop Pages & Pages immediately renewed its Kindle 'amnesty' by which customers can exchange their Amazon Kindle for a $50 gift voucher if they purchase the e-reader the bookstore sells. The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), representing more than 400 speciality bookstores, is partnering with Kindle rival Kobo. By submitting your email you are agreeing to Fairfax Media's and. 'What Amazon are doing with e-books affects readers and bookshops all over the world.” Page acknowledges that non-Digital Rights Management (DRM) books, which are mainly self-published books, can be added to Kindles. But, according to Page, all major book releases are protected by DRM and cannot be converted to Amazon's proprietary Kindle format; meaning a large majority, more than 90 per cent, of e-books for sale (and not free) are locked. Head of Dymocks, Australia's largest book chain, Steve Cox, says any Australian bookseller would be 'mad' to sell Kindles. 'Retailers like Wal Mart took the Kindle off their shelves in the US and retailers who enable Amazon to gain access to their customers' database and don't offer a broad range of books, physical books, hardbacks or e-books, are doing themselves a disservice.' Amazon has more than 65 per cent of the e-book market in Australia and more than 75 per cent of e-readers owned in Australia are Kindles, according to the ABA. 'Amazon limits readers' choices and walls them into their garden,' Page said. 'But you don't have to be.' The new Kindle catalogue includes Australian classics from Text Publishing and titles from indigenous publishing house Magabala books. All print books will continue to be sourced from America. Amazon also announced premium Kindles would be sold through its Australian shopfront and authors using Amazon and Kindle to self-publish would earn a 70 per cent royalty. Neil Lindsay, vice president of Amazon Kindle, said the new Kindle Store was customised for Australian customers, 'with local best sellers and curated lists relevant to Australians, and many titles from local publishers and authors such as Tim Winton, Karly Lane and Kate Morton'. In the lead up to Christmas, Dymocks has been running a multimedia advertising campaign stressing the curatorial value of a passionate and knowledgeable bookseller. Cox said the chain's profile had delivered 'double-digit' sales growth last week and predicted a strong Christmas sales period. Dymocks would be monitoring Amazon's e-book prices, as 'we do with other book retailers'. 'The Dymocks bookseller in Bundaberg can make a better recommendation than any algorithm on a website. They can deliver on a personal level and a bricks-and-mortar bookstore with online presence and a multi-channel strategy is a strong proposition.' Tony Nash, co-founder of Booktopia.com.au – Australia's largest online book retailer - was confident his company's model of making readily available current and back-list Australian titles, free delivery offers for members and strong after-sales service would outmatch the global e-commerce retailer. On track to record annual sales figures of $37 million, up 40 per cent on last year, Booktopia is appealing to readers' sense of loyalty, through its sponsorship of readers and writer conventions, book industry awards and donations to literacy causes. Some independent book stores, however, with or without Amazon on the scene, would need a strong Christmas to survive, said Nash. Bookworld — the previous Borders online store, relaunched in August 2012 — is launching on Tuesday a major national marketing campaign encouraging Australians to buy their books locally this Christmas. 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Apparel sizing: existing sizing systems and the development of new sizing systems Abstract: 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Existing sizing systems: strengths and weaknesses 1.3 Sizing system development: Stage 1 – Anthropometric analysis 1.4 Sizing system development: Stage 2 – Sizing analysis 1.5 Sizing system development: Stage 3 – Developing and validating a sizing system 1.6 Future trends 1.7 Sources of further information and advice 1.8 References 2. Anthropometry and the design and production of apparel: an overview Abstract: 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Ergonomics and design of clothing 2.3 Anthropometry 2.4 Selection of anthropometric data for clothing design 2.5 Errors and variability in anthropometric data 2.6 Selection of anthropometric design approach 2.7 Anthropometry and clothing production 2.8 Testing the fit of clothing 2.9 Conclusions 2.10 Future trends 2.11 Sources of further information and advice 2.12 References 3. Anthropometric methods for apparel design: body measurement devices and techniques Abstract: 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Traditional anthropometric methods 3.3 Three-dimensional anthropometry 3.4 International standards related to anthropometric methods 3.5 Landmarking 3.6 Future trends 3.7 Sources of further information and advice 3.8 References 4. Body shape analysis and identification of key dimensions for apparel sizing systems Abstract: 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Key dimensions and control dimensions 4.3 Sizing systems and identification of key dimensions 4.4 Body dimensions profile 4.5 Correlation coefficient 4.6 Multivariate data examination 4.7 Future trends 4.8 Sources of further information and advice 4.9 References Part II: Analysing anthropometric data to develop sizing systems 5. 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Creating an eye-catching, professional-looking cover that also looks good small (it has to stand out as a thumbnail image, since it's being sold online) is easier said than done, but it can really make a difference in terms of sales. Use the language drop-down menu to highlight the language your ebook is written in. Enter a publication date in the 'Pub Date' field. Choose a subject category for your ebook by clicking the 'Add/Edit' button in the category field. Then enter a few keywords in the 'Search Keywords' field to make it easier for Amazon customers to find your. How to create, publish and sell your ebook? Learn the best strategies to promote your book on your site, on Amazon and on Facebook. Ideally, you should hire a graphic designer who has some experience creating book covers. From a production standpoint, an e-book cover is easier to create than a cover for a print book (you just need a JPEG with decent resolution), but it shouldn't look out of place among traditionally published e-books. I can't tell you how many bad self-published covers are out there. • Price your e-book cheaply: You should sell your e-book for $5.99 or less. According to research done by, an online e-book publishing and distribution platform for authors, publishers, agents, and readers, $2.99 to $5.99 yields the most profit for self-published authors, and although 99 cents will get you more downloads, it's a poor price point for earning income (see Smashwords' presentation on pricing ). On the other hand,, one of the bigger online self-publishing operations, says that authors who price their e-books in the 99-cent to $2.99 range 'sell more units and earn more revenue than those in any other price range.' It's important to note that Amazon's 70 percent royalty for authors only applies to Kindle books priced between $2.99 and $9.99; otherwise, the rate kicks down to 35 percent). As for going free, well, Smashword data indicates that free e-books get about 100 times more downloads than priced e-books. • Avoid any outfits that don't let you set the price: This is one of the cardinal rules of self-publishing an e-book. You must be able to control the pricing of your e-book. If you want to sell it for 99 cents, then you should be able to sell it for 99 cents. • Marketing is all about creating awareness for your e-book: I don't have any secret marketing tips to offer, but what I can say is that you can't sell a book if no one knows it exists. Most of book marketing is simply about creating awareness and you need to do that however you can, whether it's through social media or blogging or passing out fliers on a street corner. (I made a business card for my book, which I pass out if someone seems interested in hearing more about it.) E-book publishing options. Here are the three big questions to bear in mind with e-book creation: first, what is the easiest and most cost-efficient way to produce an e-book? Second, where will it be distributed? And third, how much of a cut do you get? With those in mind, let's take a look at some of the more high-profile options available currently. I'm limiting it to these options because I want to keep this as simple as possible. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) This is Amazon's, and if you think you're going to sell a lot of e-books, you should figure out a way to upload your file (book) directly to and avoid using any sort of middleman or e-book 'aggregator' that takes a cut of the profits. If you're a true DIY person, you can create your own cover (though if you're not a professional designer, it's better to hire a pro) and format your e-book from a Word file using free software tools such as. Mobipocket Creator allows you to create an e-book with a table of contents and convert it into Amazon's proprietary e-book format, AZW (MOBI, the file output by the program, is the same as AZW). You can start with a Word file, which then gets converted to HTML, then MOBI. (Check out the Mobipocket eBook Creator guide ). Amazon If you don't want to go the total DIY route, you can pay someone a few hundred dollars (or less) to format your e-book for you, but you'll still need to come up with a cover. Konrath, who's had a lot of success in the self-published e-book space and has written an excellent primer called,' recommended Rob Siders. You can also try Ray Fowler. And Smashwords' founder Mark Coker maintains 'Mark's List,' which is a list of low-cost e-book formatters and cover designers with pricing starting at about $50. You can get the list via instant autoresponder by e-mailing [email protected]. Amazon offers a 70 percent royalty rate for authors, but some rules apply (see the ). This is the same royalty that Apple offers iPhone/iPad app developers and authors who sell e-books via its iBookstore store. You can upload your e-book directly to the iBookstore, but you have to and it's a bit of a process. That's why authors tend to use an 'aggregator' like Smashwords or Lulu to get into the iBookstore (see complete list of Apple-approved aggregators ). Even though the supports most of the leading e-book stores (Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, Kobo), getting into the iBookstore is becoming more important as Apple continues to sell millions of iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches. That said, Amazon is offering incentives to authors to offer their works exclusively on Amazon. This program is called and it comes with some key perks. Here's what Amazon has to say: KDP Select is a new option that features a to independent authors and publishers. If you choose to make a book exclusive to the Kindle Store for at least 90 days, the book is eligible to be included in the Kindle Owners' Lending Library and you can earn a share of the fund based on how frequently the book is borrowed (click here to see how payments are calculated). In addition, by choosing KDP Select, you will have access to a new set of promotional tools, starting with the option to offer enrolled books free to readers for up to 5 days every 90 days. Authors and publishers can enroll a single title, their whole catalog or anything in between within KDP Select. The allows Amazon Prime members to 'check out' your e-book for free (members can only check out one eligible title per month). Obviously, being able to offer your book for free to thousands -- or potentially million of customers -- increases the odds you'll 'sell' more books. And what's nice is that even though people may not being paying to download your book, you're still getting paid -- and pretty well, according to Amazon. 'Every time a customer borrowed an independently published book in March [2012], the author earned $2.18,' said Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle Content, in a. 'That's more than many authors earn when their books are sold.' I can't tell you how long Amazon will continue offering this deal -- and what future payout rates will be -- but I do know plenty of indie authors who are choosing the KDP Select option and not publishing on other platforms because they think it makes the most sense both in terms of number of sales (or downloads) and earnings. Kindle still has the largest market share with about 60 percent of the e-book pie (Nook is at around 25 percent, Apple 15 percent, and others are left to pick up the crumbs). Of course, not everybody feels KDP Select is the way to go. Smashwords' Coker, who's also the author of the free e-book (it's worth checking out), thinks authors should shy away from KDP Select and has. Needless to say, Coker has a vested interest in you not going exclusive with Amazon. But he's also well-regarded in the indie book world. Smashwords, one of the e-book pioneers and largest distributors of self-published e-books, with more than 125,000 titles from over 40,000 authors, is very much a DIY operation. You bring your Word file and cover image, upload it into the company's 'Meatgrinder' tool, and in a matter of minutes, you create your e-book in just about every format you'd want. You can then sell that e-book on Smashwords.com or have the company distribute it to most of the, including Barnes & Noble's eBookstore, Apple's iBooks, Sony, Kobo, and Baker & Taylor's Blio and others. Smashwords also has deals in place for having its authors' e-books distributed to libraries. As for the Kindle, well, Smashwords says it's still waiting for Amazon to update its KDP intake systems so it automatically can ingest Smashwords titles as other retailers do (the 200 or so titles that Smashwords has loaded into KDP have been loaded manually). Amazon encourages authors to upload directly through KDP, so I wouldn't count on this happening anytime soon. Smashwords is an Apple-approved aggregator. Smashwords Smashwords offers a for formatting your e-book. Although Smashwords encourages authors to keep things simple, you can still create a professional-quality e-book with Smashwords that includes a linked table of contents, NCX navigation, and custom paragraph styling. A couple of years ago, I created an acceptable-looking e-book in about 30 minutes after making some tweaks (usually they involve spacing between chapter breaks) and reprocessing my file three times. If you follow Smashwords' guidelines, you can end up with a professional-quality 'reflowable' e-book that looks as good as what many of the big publishers are putting out and reads well on any screen size. Smashwords prides itself on not charging you for creating your e-book and taking only a small cut of author's royalties (see Smashwords' ). Though the cut is small, it's still a cut, but that's the price you're paying for the convenience of having your book distributed on a wide array of platforms and having Smashwords track your sales. Coker has chided me a bit for disparaging the middleman. He's quick to point out that a good middleman partner (distributor) saves you time, helps you reach retailers you can't reach, and helps you centrally and efficiently manage distribution and metadata updates (change your price or book cover and the change propagates out to all retailers). Lastly, it's worth noting that Smashwords provides free ISBNs. I'm not going to get into a full on discussion of ISBN, which is 'a unique identifier' associated with your e-book, but most companies provide a free ISBN for your e-book or roll the price up into a package. Smashwords has a good to e-book ISBNs that you should take a look. Authors should think globally from day one. -- Mark Coker, Smashwords founder. Some distributors are more transparent than others about disclosing exactly what cut they take from your sales. Smashwords considers itself especially transparent. As soon as you upload your book, you get a dynamic pie chart that estimates how the pie is split at each price point across the different sales channels. Smashwords operates its own e-book store, where authors earn 85 percent of the net sale (what's left after credit card fees are deducted). That works out to between 60 and 80 percent of the list price, depending on the book's price (for more info on author earnings and payment schedules, see ). For books distributed by Smashwords to its retail network of the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, Diesel and Baker & Taylor's Blio, the author earns 60 percent of the list price, the retailer takes 30 percent and Smashwords earns 10 percent. The cuts work essentially the same for overseas sales, though in countries that impose VAT taxes, the VAT often comes out of the purchase price before the percentages are applied. As far as international sales go, Coker says they're growing rapidly. Apple's in 32 countries already and Amazon, Kobo, B&N and Sony are all expanding their global operations. Coker says that 45 percent of its Apple iBookstore sales are from outside the U.S. 'Authors should think globally from day one,' Coker says. He predicts that the market outside the U.S. For indie English-language e-books will soon be larger than the U.S. Indie book growth is slowing in the U.S., he says, but fledgling international e-book markets are on the cusp of entering their exponential growth phases. BookBaby, the sibling of (Brian Felsen is the president of both operations), has a slightly different business model from some of its competitors. Instead of taking a cut of your royalties, it makes you, then charges you a yearly fee of $19 per title you have in its system. It also offers print publishing services. BookBaby has upfront costs but doesn't take a royalty cut. BookBaby I haven't used BookBaby but I spoke to a customer service representative at length and was impressed with her responses. When I asked about what advantages BookBaby had over Smashwords, she didn't knock her competitor. 'Smashwords is great,' she said. 'But BookBaby is for someone who wants a little more hand-holding through the process.' Smashwords' Coker concurs and told me that he's sent people who wanted more hand-holding to BookBaby. Of course, you'll have to pay a bit more to get that hand-holding. There's a that runs $199, as well as (the customer service rep recommended going with the $279 Deluxe option). BookBaby offers distribution with all the major e-book sellers (see list ) and offers an to track and analyze sales data. In all, BookBaby seems like one of the better indie e-book operations out there. If you only sell a few books, that $99 entry fee (or $199 if you go with the premium package) may not seem like such a great deal. But if you sell a lot, you'll quickly recoup your investment. PubIt is B&N's self-publishing offering. Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble's PubIt self-publishing operation offers similar features to Amazon's KDP, but the two platforms do have their differences. Barnes & Noble has set the PubIt royalty rate for authors at 65 percent of the sale price for titles priced $2.99 and higher. The rate falls to 40 percent if you choose to go lower than $2.99 or higher than $9.99, with B&N setting 99 cents as the lowest allowable price and $199.99 as the highest. (For books priced under $2.99 or over $9.99, you actually earn more by distributing your book to B&N through Smashwords, which pays 60 percent list for all prices 99 cents and up. B&N's 65 percent is close to Amazon's 70 percent royalty, but not quite as high (Amazon also has pricing restriction to get its highest rate). PubIt includes a free conversion tool that takes your Microsoft Word, TXT, HTML, or RTF files and automatically converts it to an EPUB file, which you then upload to Barnes & Noble's eBookstore (alternatively, of course, if your e-book is already an EPUB file, you can just upload it directly through PubIt). Barnes & Noble allows you to preview how your content will look on one of Barnes & Noble's e-reading devices using the Nook emulator. Barnes & Noble says that going forward it will offer some unique features and is looking for ways to tie-in the Nook's in-store Wi-Fi streaming features and feature local self-published authors in stores specific to each location. For reference, here's a look at the PubIt. Lulu When you publish a print book at Lulu -- and a lot of people do -- you also have the option of just publishing an e-book. Lulu e-books are distributed to Apple's iBookstore, Lulu.com, and Barnes & Noble (Nook). Lulu is also an approved Apple aggregator. The main benefit Lulu offers in the e-book realm is that it's one of the designated aggregators for Apple's iBookstore. It appears that Lulu doesn't charge you anything to create an e-book (it offers an EPUB conversion tool and), but like some competitors it offers fee-based premium services. Lulu has greatly improved its royalty terms in last 18 months. As far as I can tell from its, Lulu takes a 10 percent cut of your net earnings from Apple's iBookstore and B&N's Nook Book Store. It's hard to say what advantages Lulu has over competitors like Smashwords but at least the royalty rates appear to be the same. Weirdly, I found the Lulu Web site to be straightforward yet convoluted at the same time. For instance, I couldn't figure out whether Lulu distributes your e-book to any retailers beyond Lulu.com, Apple, and Barnes & Noble. From what I saw on the site, it appears they don't. Click to check out Lulu's e-book creation options. Booktango, one of the largest self-publishers in the U.S., has entered the DIY e-book market with. Whether Booktango should be called an 'e-book generating app' or 'self-publishing platform' is hard to say, but it basically provides a free and simple way to upload your manuscript, edit it for proper formatting, then automatically serve it up to various e-book stores, including Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks. Author Solutions recently launched Booktango, a new DIY e-book publishing platform. Booktango On the surface, Booktango, which bears the 'beta' tag, looks fairly slick and should improve as the company adds more features. The ability to have WYSIWYG formatting capabilities is nice (even on the iPad) and you can either upload a cover image of your own choosing or design one using some provided templates. All in all, it looks like a perfectly decent way to get your e-book formatted and distributed to all the major e-book stores quickly. Like its competitors, Booktango also manages your e-book sales -- it rolls them all up into one account -- and you can have your royalties sent directly to your checking account. Booktango is free to use, but the company is working off a freemium model and provides additional, such as copy editing, custom cover design, and marketing packages. Booktango's Web site advertises a '100 percent royalty,' which is misleading considering you get that rate only from the e-books you sell on the Booktango Web site and Booktango charges a fee for each book you sell (30 percent of the list price -- the same as Amazon). For other outlets, Booktango takes 10 percent of your net profits, resulting in a '90 percent royalty,' which is also misleading because the net profit in its seems smaller than it should be. Honestly, Booktango's royalty rates don't look too good and can't match its competitors' rates. However, in an effort to attract authors Booktango is offering a until July 4. And the Web site says that if you publish an e-book with Booktango by July 4, you'll retain that 100 percent rate for the life of that book. That means if you make a sale through Booktango's e-book store, you'll get the full amount of the sale (I'm not sure if credit card fees are deducted or not). You'll also get the full 100 percent net of the sale when selling through other e-booksellers (Apple, Amazon, and others will take their 30 percent cut, of course). Since the service is so new I can't vouch for it, but Booktango's limited-time 100 percent royalty offer certainly has some appeal. IBooks Author A lot of people ask me about creating children's books or other types of graphically rich books and e-books. I can't say I'm an expert in this area, but when you're dealing with graphics and images, the self-publishing equation becomes more difficult and expensive (formatting costs tend to go up as you add more images). However, Apple's trying to change all that with, which allows you to build multitouch interactive e-books that you can upload and sell in the iBookstore and view in the iBooks2 app on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. IBooks Author is a free download for Macs. Apple The software program is a free download for Mac owners and using it is not so different from creating a PowerPoint presentation. It's not perfect, but overall it's pretty impressive, and Apple will undoubtedly continue improving it with updates. You work from a selection of templates and can add multitouch widgets to include interactive photo galleries, movies, 3D objects, and more. When you're done, you then have to to create an account before you can upload your creations to the iBookstore or iTunes U (Apple has billed iBooks Author as a multifaceted tool for creating everything from textbooks to cookbooks to picture books, and anything else you can think of). If you can't find a template you like, there are already third-party vendors, including, selling additional templates. (Yes, Apple's spurred another cottage industry). When iBooks Author launched, some people were upset by the fact that your project can only live in Apple's e-book ecosystem and nowhere else. At the moment, the iPad is far and away the best-selling tablet and represents arguably the biggest market for graphically rich color e-books, not to mention the best way to view them (particularly on the new iPad's Retina display). Yes, Amazon has sold a lot of Kindle Fires and the Barnes & Noble's Nook Color and Nook Tablet have found their way into a lot of homes. But the iPad's still king, and Apple's calling the shots here. I don't have a problem with that and think it's great that Apple offers iBooks Author for free. But the one thing that does bother me is Apple's failure to provide a free ISBN for your e-book. Instead, it tells you to get your own and provides a link to Bowker's. Bowker's charges $125 for a single ISBN or 10 for $250. The price drops to single digits when you buy thousands of ISBNs as other self-publishing outfits do. (You can buy a single ISBN for less than $125, but I'd prefer not get into all that). In short, it's patently absurd that Apple's making its authors pay $125 for ISBN number, and I think it's deterring a lot of people from publishing an iBook directly with Apple. Apple's the exclusive publisher here. It needs to provide free ISBNs to its authors. If Smashwords can afford to do it, so can Apple. CreateSpace, iUniverse, Xlibris, AuthorHouse, and other POD self-publishing outfits Most of the large print-on-demand self-publishing operations offer some sort of e-book conversion service and distribution -- and sometimes it gets bundled into a print-publishing package (these companies usually charge a few hundred dollars for converting your e-book). In some cases, this can work out OK for authors who don't care about extracting as much money as they can from each sale and don't want to work with a separate company to create an e-book once they've uploaded their PDF file for their print book. For those who don't think they'll end up selling a lot of copies of their e-book, this can be a fine arrangement, but just beware that in many cases you can't set your own price and more money is being taken out of your net profits than should be. Again, you should strongly consider avoiding companies that don't let you set your own price. Scribd offers one of the fastest and easiest ways to get an e-book or even a short story up on the Internet, though Scribd isn't a serious player yet as far as e-book sales go. After you create an account, you simply create a PDF of your book with the cover image embedded in the first page of the PDF and upload the PDF to Scribd. Scribd is trying to become the YouTube for documents. Scribd Its online software quickly converts your document into a file that can be viewed on a PC, iPad, or other portable devices. You can also choose to allow people to download your file for viewing. Scribd has added HTML5 coding, so your document can easily be read on the iPad via the Safari browser (this allows you to use Apple's finger-based, pinch-and-spread touch zoom controls). Currently, the majority of documents posted to Scribd are free to view or download (it's a great way to post samples of your work), but you can sell your work on Scribd as well. (If you want to see an example, I posted a of my own book to Scribd. Alas, I should have made my cover larger so it didn't have a white border, but so it goes). In sum To be clear, there are other ways to go about self-publishing your e-book. For example, I haven't talked about such outfits as,, or, because they're geared toward larger publishing or self-publishing operations rather than individuals. To help focus your decision-making process, I've tried to stick to what I consider the important players right now. I should also say that everybody comes to the self-publishing process with a different agenda -- and a different book --and some e-book self-publishing options will appeal to you based on the type of book you have (aside from the iBooks Author reference, this article is slanted to publishing more text-based e-books rather than books with lots of illustrations or graphic images, such as children's books). For those who are publishing an e-book as an experiment or 'just to get it out there' and who are less concerned with making money and extracting every last dime out of a sale, aggregators offer a convenient solution to get your book in a variety of e-book stores and roll up your sales into one single record that you can easily track (most companies pay out earnings from e-books within 60 to 90 days; Amazon is 60). It's also worth noting that you can mix and match and go direct with Amazon (KDP), uploading your own file and managing your account, and then use an aggregator such as Smashwords for additional distribution to other e-book stores. At this point there are no hard and set rules and, as I said in the beginning, the e-book market is very fluid, seeing significant changes almost every month. As always, please feel free to post your opinion in the comments section, particularly if you've had experience publishing your e-book already and can share your observations with others. And remember, Google is your best friend for the finer parts of self-publishing, such as converting a Word file to a PDF. Editors' note:This story has been updated a few times, most recently on June 1, 2012, since it was originally published on July 27, 2010. And that’s just a small taste of all the disruptions we’ve enjoyed thanks to the internet. One of the biggest disrupted industries, and one of those that provides a great path to a solid venture for an individual entrepreneur, is in book publishing. You see, what the big publishing houses do with big offices of editors, writers, administrative staff and then big printing presses then distribution centers to get their books out to bookstores around the country all to hopefully get books in the hands of customers you can do on the computer you have right now. If that’s not massive disruption, I don’t know what is. With all the red tape, 'play to pay' tactics, and the lack of marketing support from the big publishing houses (along with low royalties) many are finding that self-publishing is a much better option. There are some key differences between this self-publishing (which, by the way, doesn’t have the negative connotations it used to) and traditional publishing. From humble beginnings, ebooks now sell in the millions each year, representing about 20 percent of the publishing market in the United States. Industry watchers say that by 2018, ebook revenues will reach over $8 billion per year. And there is plenty of room for a one-person ebook entrepreneur to get a piece of that market. What Are Ebooks? Ebooks are, well, books. But in a format where they can be delivered or downloaded online. You can write them yourself, employ writers, use public domain content, and create your ebooks from many sources. And just about any subject can be covered — just as many, if not more, than what a traditional publisher might release because you can tailor your tomes to. Travel guides, how-to manuals, mystery, romance, science fiction, self-help, technology, religions just about any subject is fair game as long as there is a market of ready buyers. (One of the best ways to check for is to scan the bestseller lists on Amazon. And not just the overall list but also the ones for categories and subcategories.) Also, you won’t have to rely on an editor or publisher telling you whether a book will be published. And you won’t have to rely on a bookstore to put your book on its shelves. You’re in complete control of the entire process. In fact, you’re going to handle everything yourself, including marketing and selling. And that means you get to keep all the profits. They’re nothing to sneeze. Self-published authors have had big success in recent years. Take Hugh Howey, who sold a series of science fiction books through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. At one point, he was selling 20,000 — 30,000 copies a month, which generated $150,000 in income monthly. Amanda Hocking, who writes “paranormal romance” and fantasy novels, has sold well more than a million books on Amazon, generating over $2 million in sales. That's proof that you can. Perhaps most famously 50 Shades of Grey author E.L. James’s erotica series started life as a self-published work before being snapped up by a traditional publisher and turned into a movie. Let me show you how to build the same type of business. Starting an Ebook Business — Where You Sell As an ebook publisher you have a few options available for selling your works. You can set up your own website and. You might make a PDF available to your readers for example. A simple and you’re all set. A reader visits your site, they order, and they get a download link and get your book. It’s pretty much all automated, and you simply keep an eye on things to make sure the site is running smoothly. The benefit of this is you control the entire process, get all of the customer information (so you can promote additional products, services, or books), and you can charge higher prices. One of the easiest ways to sell ebooks is to work through a third-party site like Amazon. You may have ordered products, even books, from Amazon in the past. But this is a whole different side to this massive ecommerce site. The big benefit to working through, even though they charge you a commission on your sales, is their reach. Around 89 million Americans are said to be active ebook readers. That’s your potential audience, all those people visiting this site and browsing for a new book. It could be your book they find when doing a search on a related keyword. In fact, 38 percent of daily sales of ebooks on Amazon go to self-published titles. While you may not make as much money as you would selling direct on your own site, you'll have the opportunity to reach and audience who you wouldn't otherwise have access to. The process to selling your ebook on Kindle is straightforward. You sign up, then upload your ebook. They take care of converting it to their proprietary format. Then you’re ready to sell and. Where to Get Your Content – The First Step to Creating Your Bestseller Believe it or not, you might already have most of an ebook written already. If you are already, those blog posts could be turned into an ebook with some editing. Simply collect relevant blog posts into an order that makes sense, make any needed edits so that references that aren’t relevant are taken out, and add an introduction and conclusion, and you’re done. Any blog posts you use should cover the same or related topics and work well together. Of course, that’s only one way to put together the content for your ebook. If you want to publish an original work of fiction or nonfiction — something you write yourself fresh — that is also a good option. The key part, if you’re starting from scratch, is to work steadily towards your goals of finishing that book. Write something every day! Start with an outline and then fill it in. You can also repurpose a book that is in the public domain. This means the copyright has expired and anybody can take the content of those books, and publish them, either updated or reworked in some way or as is. Did you see that book, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that came out a few years ago? That’s a great example of reworking a public domain book. You can find public domain works, which include classics like Call of the Wild by Jack London and Shakespeare and books on just about every subject you can think of (a quick search yielded dog training guides, a how-to guide for amateur singers, and much more), in places like. Another option is you can hire someone else to write your book for you. This is actually a very common practice in the book publishing industry; these writers are referred to as 'ghost writers'. Marketing Your Ebook There’s a dirty little secret in the traditional publishing world. Publishers usually don’t actively market or promote the vast majority of the books they release. Only those from established best-selling authors get this attention. But, as an ebook publisher, you’re going to relish having this same control over your marketing and sales strategy. With all the options available, you should have no problem finding a way to get your book title(s) out into the world and grab the attention of potential readers. I recommend a multichannel approach — approach the marketing from several different angles. One definite channel is social media. Leverage your, Twitter, LinkedIn contacts, and more to get the word out. When the book is published, post it on with a link back to your website with more information and a way to order, for example. But it’s not enough to send out one announcement. You have to build buzz around your ebook. Encourage people to tell friends about your ebook and spread the word. Post content related to your book. Create contests. Do giveaways. Get creative with your marketing. You should also promote your book on your blog, is about and tell people about it, and if you have an, be sure to promote it there too. You might also offer a free chapter of your ebook. That will get readers hooked so that they want more and will buy the rest of the ebook. The key is to be proactive with your marketing efforts to continually generate buzz and interest for your book. Some Dos and Don’ts for a Successful Ebook Making money from ebooks isn’t automatic. You can’t just put anything in it and hope to profit. It’s not a difficult task, but you should follow some best practices to make sure your ebook draws attention from readers and generates sales. Don’t Get Overwhelmed Just because you’re writing a book doesn’t mean you have to stress out. With a plan in place, you can finish your work and put it on sale. You just need to create an outline for the book to follow, set a schedule for when you’re going to write (if it’s original work) or when you’re going to work on it, how you will market the book and when each task needs to be done, and set a goal publication date when it will be offered on sale. It’s a matter of setting aside time each day. You can’t just work on this when you “feel” like it otherwise, it’ll never get done. Do Choose a Topic You Know About You want to write with authority and confidence and passion. It’s not a good idea to pick a topic just because you think it might be a best-seller. Remember, you can always outsource the writing to an expert as well. Don’t Make Your Writing Flowery and Complicated Make sure all your text is easy to read and understand. It's better to write in a conversational manner and not in an academic manner. Many experts suggest that you should write at an eight-grade writing level. Don’t Forget About Proofreading Double check for grammatical errors, misspellings, etc. Make sure you have a trusted friend or even professional proofreader go over your ebook before publication. There’s nothing worse than releasing a book full of errors — it doesn’t inspire confidence in your readers, can lead to refunds, and bad reviews. Do Create a Professional Layout and Cover Just because you are self-publishing doesn’t mean you want it to like an amateur did it. Hire a graphic designer on a site like Fiverr.com to create a good-looking cover based on your direction and input for not much money. They can also lay out the interior pages too. Just because your book is self-published doesn't mean it has to look and feel that way. Taking the Next Step to Selling Ebooks Online So now you understand why selling ebooks can be such a money-maker, it's time to get started. 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An entirely new section of analysis with more than 75 new pages will be added shortly after the release of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' on July 16, 2005. Publication date 21 July 2007 ( 2007-07-21) Pages 607 (UK) 759 (US) Preceded by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a written by British author and the seventh and final novel of the series. The book was released on 21 July 2007, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of. It was published by in the United Kingdom, in the United States by, and in Canada. The novel chronicles the events directly following (2005), and the final confrontation between the wizards and. Deathly Hallows shattered sales records upon release, surpassing marks set by previous titles of the Potter series. It holds the Guinness World Record for most novels sold within 24 hours of release, with 8.3 million sold in the U.S. Alone and 2.65 million in the U.K. Generally well-received by critics, the book won the 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award, and the American Library Association named it a 'Best Book for Young Adults'. A film adaptation of the novel was released in two parts: in November 2010, and in July 2011. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] Background [ ] Throughout the six previous novels in the, the titular character has struggled with the difficulties of adolescence along with being famous as the only wizard to survive the. The curse was cast by the evil, better known as, a powerful evil wizard, who had murdered Harry's parents and attempted to kill Harry as a baby, in the belief this would frustrate a that Harry would become his equal. As an, Harry was placed in the care of his (non-magical) relatives and. In, Harry re-enters the wizarding world at age 11 and enrolls in. He makes friends with fellow students and, and is by the school's headmaster,. He also meets Professor, who intensely dislikes and bullies him. Harry fights Voldemort several times while at school, as the wizard tries to regain a physical form. In, Harry is mysteriously entered in a dangerous magical competition called the Triwizard Tournament, which he discovers is a trap designed to allow the return of Lord Voldemort to full strength. During, Harry and several of his friends face off against Voldemort's, a group of Dark witches and wizards, and narrowly defeat them. In, Harry learns that Voldemort has divided his soul into several parts, creating ' from various unknown objects to contain them; in this way he has ensured his immortality as long as at least one of the horcruxes still exists. Two of these had already been destroyed, one a diary destroyed by Harry in the events of and one a ring destroyed by Dumbledore shortly before the events of Half-Blood Prince. Dumbledore takes Harry along in the attempt to destroy a third horcrux contained in a. However, the horcrux had been taken by an unknown wizard, and upon their return Dumbledore is ambushed and disarmed by who cannot bring himself to kill him. Dumbledore is subsequently killed by Snape, who finishes what Malfoy started. Summary [ ] Following Dumbledore's death, Voldemort consolidates his support and power, including covert control of the Ministry of Magic, while Harry is about to turn seventeen, losing the protection of his home. The move Harry to a new location before his birthday, but are attacked upon departure. In the ensuing battle, is killed and wounded; Voldemort himself arrives to kill Harry, but Harry's wand fends him off of its own accord. Harry, Ron and Hermione make preparations to abandon Hogwarts and hunt down Voldemort's four remaining, but have few clues to work with as to their identities and locations. One is a locket once owned by Hogwarts' co-founder which was stolen by the mysterious 'R.A.B.' , one is possibly a cup originally belonging to co-founder, a third might be connected to co-founder, and the fourth might be, Voldemort's snake. They also inherit strange bequests from among Dumbledore's possessions: a for Harry, a for Ron, and a book of fairy tales for Hermione. The trio attends Bill Weasley's wedding, but during the reception the finally falls to Voldemort and the wedding is attacked by Death Eaters. They flee to 12 Grimmauld Place in London, the family home of, that Harry had inherited a year before. Thanks to the house-elf Kreacher they identify R.A.B. As Sirius' deceased brother Regulus and learn that Slytherin's locket was stolen from the house and ultimately seized by of the Ministry of Magic. They infiltrate the Ministry in disguise and take back the locket, but accidentally break the protection of 12 Grimmauld Place during their escape and must go on the run across the countryside. With no way to destroy the locket, they argue frequently under the object's evil influence, culminating in Ron abandoning Harry and Hermione. Harry and Hermione continue the quest, discovering more about Dumbledore's past, including the death of Dumbledore's younger sister and his connection to the dark wizard. They travel to Godric's Hollow, Harry's birthplace and the place where his parents died, and meet the elderly magical historian Bathilda Bagshot, but she turns out to be Nagini in disguise, awaiting their arrival. The snake attacks Harry and again they barely escape, but Harry's wand is damaged beyond repair. Their luck finally appears to turn in the. A mysterious silver doe appears and guides Harry to an icy pond containing the, one of the few objects able to destroy Horcruxes. During Harry's attempt to recover the sword, the Horcrux attempts to kill him. He is saved by Ron, who appears suddenly, takes the sword and uses it to destroy the locket. Ron had been guided back to them by the Deluminator, indicating that Dumbledore's gifts may be more useful than they thought. Hermione identifies in Dumbledore's book a strange symbol also worn at the wedding. They visit him and are told the symbol represents the mythical, three objects from an old titled: the, an unbeatable wand; the Resurrection Stone, able to summon the dead; and an infallible Invisibility Cloak. Although Ron and Hermione are skeptical, Harry believes the Hallows are real and could explain the visions of Voldemort he has been having over the past few months. He suspects Voldemort is hunting the Elder Wand, won by Dumbledore after defeating Grindelwald, believing it will allow him to overpower the connection between his own wand and Harry's. Harry believes the Resurrection Stone was inset into the ring horcrux that Dumbledore himself discovered the previous year, and may be hidden inside the Snitch Dumbledore left for him, but he can't open it. The description of the third Hallow also matches that of his own inherited Invisibility Cloak. Harry's suspicions are confirmed when he has a vision of Voldemort breaking open Dumbledore's tomb and stealing the Elder Wand from within. The trio are captured by Snatchers and taken to Manor, where tortures Hermione to learn how the three acquired the sword, which she had believed was in her vault. With the help of Dobby the house-elf they escape along with fellow prisoners,, Dean Thomas, and the goblin Griphook. During the escape, Peter Pettigrew is strangled by his own silver hand after Harry reminds him of the debt he owes him; Harry overpowers and steals his wand; and Dobby is killed by Bellatrix. Bellatrix's anger in interrogating Hermione suggests to Harry some exceptional object is in her vault, and when questioned, Griphook confirms a gold cup is indeed in her vault. With Griphook's help, they break into the vault at Gringotts, retrieve the cup, and escape on a dragon, but in the chaos Griphook steals the Sword of Gryffindor from them. Harry has another vision of Voldemort and sees that he now understands their plan, and intends to make his remaining horcruxes even safer. The vision also confirms the unidentified horcrux is at Hogwarts. They enter the school through an undiscovered secret entrance in the Hog's Head, a bar in Hogsmeade owned by Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth. Harry alerts the teachers Voldemort is planning an assault on the school, and they drive out Snape and summon the Order of the Phoenix to help defend the school to win time for Harry to locate the horcrux. Voldemort had set a guard in the Ravenclaw tower, corroborating Harry's belief the horcrux is Rowena Ravenclaw's, lost centuries ago. The Ravenclaw ghost's story further confirms this belief, and Harry remembers an old diadem in the. Ron and Hermione destroy the cup with fangs taken from the as Voldemort and his army besiege the castle. They find the diadem but are ambushed by Draco Malfoy and his friends and. Crabbe tries to kill them using Fiendfyre, a cursed fire, but is unable to control it; the fire destroys the diadem and himself while Harry and his friends save Malfoy and Goyle. Meanwhile, several major characters are killed in the Battle of Hogwarts, including,, and. In his encampment, Voldemort feels the Elder Wand is not performing as he expected. According to legend, its full allegiance must be won by killing the previous owner, and Voldemort reasons that as Snape killed Dumbledore, he will not be able to fully wield the wand's power until he kills Snape, which he does. Harry arrives as Snape is dying, and Snape passes him memories to view in a. They reveal Snape had a lifelong love for Harry's mother and felt haunted for causing her death, and despite hating Harry's father he agreed at Dumbledore's request to watch over Harry and act as a against Voldemort. The doe Patronus that led Harry to the Sword was summoned by Snape, who was watching over them the whole time. It is revealed that Dumbledore was slowly dying after mishandling the ring horcrux, and he planned his 'murder' with Snape in advance to prove Snape's allegiance to Voldemort. The memories also explain Harry must die at Voldemort's hand if Voldemort is to become mortal. Harry accepts his death and goes to the Forbidden Forest to allow Voldemort to kill him. On the way he mentions to that Voldemort's snake Nagini must be killed to make Voldemort vulnerable. He finally manages to open the Snitch and uses the Resurrection Stone within to seek comfort and courage from his dead loved ones—his parents, Sirius and Lupin—dropping the Stone in the forest before reaching Voldemort's camp. Voldemort uses the and Harry does not defend himself. Harry awakens in a dreamlike location resembling and is greeted by Dumbledore, who explains Voldemort's original Killing Curse left a fragment of Voldemort's soul in Harry which caused the connection they had felt, making Harry an unintended Horcrux; this fragment had just been destroyed by Voldemort himself. When Voldemort used Harry's blood to regain his full strength, this further protected Harry from Voldemort, allowing Harry to return to life if he chooses, or to 'go on.' Harry chooses to return and feigns death. Voldemort calls a truce and displays Harry's body, offering to spare most of the defenders if they surrender. Neville, however, pulls the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat and uses it to behead Nagini, leaving Voldemort unprotected, and Harry escapes under his cloak as the battle resumes. In a final onslaught, is killed by and Harry reveals to Voldemort that he is alive. He explains to Voldemort the Elder Wand's loyalty transfers upon the defeat, not necessarily the killing, of its previous master. Although Voldemort believes by killing Snape he has gained the Wand's loyalty, Snape was in fact never its master. Instead, Draco Malfoy inadvertently earned the Wand's loyalty when he disarmed Dumbledore just before Snape arrived to kill him. Therefore, Harry believes that their duel will depend on whether or not the Wand recognizes Harry to be its new master after he disarmed Draco at Malfoy Manor weeks prior. Voldemort attempts one final Killing Curse on Harry, but the Elder Wand refuses to act against Harry and the spell rebounds, killing Voldemort at last. Harry uses the Elder Wand to repair his original wand, planning to return the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's tomb where its power may vanish if Harry dies undefeated and it can drop out of history. Harry does not intend to search for the Resurrection Stone he dropped in the Forbidden Forest, but will keep the Invisibility Cloak he inherited. The wizarding world returns to peace once more. Epilogue In an epilogue set in 19 years later, the primary characters are seeing their own children off to Hogwarts. Harry and are a couple with three children:,, and. Ron and Hermione also have two children, and. Harry's godson is found kissing and 's daughter; is now a Hogwarts professor; and his wife are also at the station to send off their son,. Albus is departing for his first year at Hogwarts and is worried he will be placed into Slytherin House. Harry reassures him by telling his son he is named after two Hogwarts headmasters, one of them (Snape) a Slytherin and 'the bravest man he had ever met', but the could also take account of personal preferences, as it did for Harry. The book ends with the words: 'The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.' Background [ ] Franchise [ ] Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published by, the publisher of all Harry Potter books in the United Kingdom, on 30 June 1997. It was released in the United States on 1 September 1998 by —the American publisher of the books—as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, after Rowling had received US$105,000 for the American rights—an unprecedented amount for a children's book by a then-unknown author. The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998, and in the US on 2 June 1999. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was then published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999, and in the US on 8 September 1999. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by and. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the longest book in the series at 766 pages in the UK version and 870 pages in the US version. It was published worldwide in English on 21 June 2003. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was published on 16 July 2005, and it sold 9 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide release. Choice of title [ ] The title of the book refers to three mythical objects featured in the story, collectively known as the '—an unbeatable wand, a stone to bring the dead to life, and a cloak of invisibility. Shortly before releasing the title, J. Rowling announced that she had considered three titles for the book. The final title was released to the public on 21 December 2006, via a special Christmas-themed puzzle on Rowling's website, confirmed shortly afterwards by the book's publishers. When asked during a live chat about the other titles she had been considering, Rowling mentioned Harry Potter and the Elder Wand and Harry Potter and the Peverell Quest. Rowling on finishing the book [ ]. Rowling completed the final chapters of Deathly Hallows in Room 552 of the. Rowling completed the book while staying at the in Edinburgh in January 2007, and left a signed statement on a marble of in her room which read: 'J. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (552) on 11 January 2007'. In a statement on her website, she said, 'I've never felt such a mixture of extreme emotions in my life, never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric.' She compared her mixed feelings to those expressed by in the preface of the 1850 edition of, 'a two-years' imaginative task'. 'To which,' she added, 'I can only sigh, try seventeen years, Charles'. She ended her message by saying ' Deathly Hallows is my favourite, and that is the most wonderful way to finish the series'. When asked before publication about the forthcoming book, Rowling stated that she could not change the ending even if she wanted. 'These books have been plotted for such a long time, and for six books now, that they're all leading a certain direction. So, I really can't'. She also commented that the final volume related closely to the previous book in the series,, 'almost as though they are two-halves of the same novel'. She has said that the last chapter of the book was written 'in something like 1990', as part of her earliest work on the series. Rowling also revealed she originally wrote the last words to be 'something like: 'Only those who he loved could see his lightning scar '. Rowling changed this because she did not want people to think Voldemort would rise again and to say that Harry's mission was over. Major themes [ ]. Has said that the main theme of the series is Harry dealing with death. Death [ ] In a 2006 interview, J. Rowling said that the main theme of the series is Harry dealing with death, which was influenced by her mother's death in 1990, from. Of Time stated that the main theme of the series was the overwhelming importance of continuing to love in the face of death. Living in a corrupted society [ ] Academics and journalists have developed many other interpretations of themes in the books, some more complex than others, and some including. Themes such as, oppression, survival, and overcoming imposing odds have all been considered as prevalent throughout the series. Similarly, the theme of making one's way through adolescence and 'going over one's most harrowing ordeals—and thus coming to terms with them' has also been considered. Rowling has stated that the books comprise 'a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to ' and that also pass on a message to 'question authority and. Not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth'. Some political commentators have seen J. Rowling's portrayal of the Ministry of Magic and the oppressive measures taken by the Ministry in the later books (like making attendance at Hogwarts School compulsory and the 'registration of ' with the Ministry) as an allegory of. Christian allegories [ ]. See also: The Harry Potter series has been criticised for supposedly supporting and the. Before publication of Deathly Hallows, Rowling refused to speak out about her religion, stating, 'If I talk too freely, every reader, whether 10 or 60, will be able to guess what's coming in the books'. However, many have noted apparent in Deathly Hallows. For example, Harry dies and then comes back to life to save mankind, like Christ. The location where this occurs is King's Cross. Harry also urges Voldemort to show remorse, to restore his shattered soul. Rowling also stated that 'my belief and my struggling with religious belief. I think is quite apparent in this book', which is shown as Harry struggles with his faith in Dumbledore. The as pictured in 1617 alchemical work Atalanta Fugiens, similar to the presentation of the Deathly Hallows and Resurrection Stone. Deathly Hallows begins with a pair of epigraphs, one by leader and one from '. Of this, Rowling said 'I really enjoyed choosing those two quotations because one is pagan, of course, and one is from a Christian tradition. I'd known it was going to be those two passages since was published. I always knew [that] if I could use them at the beginning of book seven then I'd cued up the ending perfectly. If they were relevant, then I went where I needed to go. They just say it all to me, they really do'. When Harry visits his parents' grave, the biblical reference 'The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death' (:26) is inscribed on the grave. The Dumbledores' family tomb also holds a biblical quote: 'Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also', which is from Matthew 6:21. Rowling states, 'They're very British books, so on a very practical note Harry was going to find biblical quotations on tombstones. [but] I think those two particular quotations he finds on the tombstones at Godric's Hollow, they sum up – they almost epitomise the whole series'. Harry Potter additionally noted that one of the reasons the Harry Potter books were so popular is their use of literary alchemy (similar to, 's and 's ) and vision symbolism. In this model, authors weave allegorical tales along the. Since the medieval period, alchemical allegory has mirrored the passion, death and resurrection of Christ. While the entire series utilises symbols common in alchemy, the Deathly Hallows completes this cycle, tying themes of death, rebirth, and the Resurrection Stone to the principal motif of alchemical allegory, and topics presented in the first book of the series. The Russian translation of the seventh book—'Harry Potter and the Gift of Death'—went on sale at the bookstore Moskva in Moscow on 13 October 2007 The launch was celebrated by an all-night book signing and reading at the in London, which Rowling attended along with 1,700 guests chosen by ballot. Rowling toured the US in October 2007, where another event was held at in New York City with tickets allocated by sweepstake., the American publisher of the Harry Potter series, launched a multimillion-dollar 'There will soon be 7' marketing campaign with a 'Knight Bus' travelling to 40 libraries across the United States, online fan discussions and competitions, collectible bookmarks, tattoos, and the staged release of seven Deathly Hallows questions most debated by fans. In the build-up to the book's release, Scholastic released seven questions that fans would find answered in the final book: • Who will live? Who will die? • Is Snape good or evil? • Will Hogwarts reopen? • Who ends up with whom? • Where are the Horcruxes? • Will Voldemort be defeated? • What are the Deathly Hallows? Rowling arranged with her publishers for a poster bearing the face of the missing British child to be made available to book sellers when Deathly Hallows was launched on 21 July 2007, and said that she hoped that the posters would be displayed prominently in shops all over the world. After it was told that the novel would be released on 21 July 2007, shortly thereafter said that the film adaptation of would be released shortly before the novel would be released, on 13 July 2007, making many people proclaim that July 2007, was the month of Harry Potter. Spoiler embargo [ ] Bloomsbury invested 10 million in an attempt to keep the book's contents secure until 21 July, the release date. Arthur Levine, U.S. Editor of the Harry Potter series, denied distributing any copies of Deathly Hallows in advance for press review, but two U.S. Papers published early reviews anyway. There was speculation that some shops would break the embargo and distribute copies of the book early, as the penalty imposed for previous instalments—that the distributor would not be supplied with any further copies of the series—would no longer be a deterrent. Online leaks and early delivery [ ] In the week before its release, a number of texts purporting to be genuine leaks appeared in various forms. On 16 July, a set of photographs representing all 759 pages of the U.S. Edition was leaked and was fully prior to the official release date. The photographs later appeared on websites and networks, leading to seek a in order to identify one source. This represented the most serious security breach in the Harry Potter series' history. Rowling and her lawyer confirmed that there were genuine online leaks. 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