`HARRY POTTER' INTERNET SALES CHANGING BOOKSELLING'S FUTURE.Byline: Chris CHRIS Chemical Hazards Response Information System (US DoD) CHRIS California Historical Resources Information System CHRIS Computerized Human Resources Information System CHRIS Command Human Resources Intelligence System Reidy The Boston Globe As the Beatles once owned the music charts 30 years ago, Harry Potter A potter is someone who makes pottery. Potter may also refer to: People
Created by author J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter may be more than a fictional boy wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. whose adventures beguile children and adults alike; the Potter books are also an Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the phenomenon, one that may change the way books are marketed and sold, and one that has given some British Internet booksellers an advantage over brick-and-mortar rivals in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Although the book just went on sale in the U.S. on Wednesday, some readers already have the book, which has been available in Rowling's native Britain for several months. They bought their copies from online bookstores based in England, such as the the British Web site run by Amazon.com. ``Technology has changed the playing field,'' laments chief executive Avin Mark Domnitz of the American Booksellers Association. The Internet is changing ``all the rules.'' Traditionally, publishers bought rights to a book country by country, and a book could have more than one publisher. But thanks to the Internet, a book can be almost instantly available anywhere in the world, and readers in one country can buy it from a Web site in another. |
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