Friday, November 03, 2006

A Year Without Harry Potter Is Like a Year Without Money

CBC NEWS: There was no Harry Potter book this year — and that cost Indigo Books & Music Inc. dearly.

Total sales for Canada's largest bookstore chain fell 2.4 per cent to $182.2 million in the fiscal second quarter, largely because there was no Harry Potter book to sell. And a quarterly profit last year turned into a $1-million loss.

3 comments:

Cap'n Bob said...

They could have stocked more Criders, the fools.

Anonymous said...

A recent visit to one of the Borders stores makes me wonder if Borders, at least in the US, aren't in the same sort of trouble you see Indigo in, Kent...a lot more stationery, a lot fewer book displays, the newsstand slightly shrunken...

Anonymous said...

What makes sense to me is that the absence of one major series title is the demise of a huge bookstore chain. Does Harry hold that much power? Maybe it's magic.