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Sep 23 2008
Brisingr, the long-awaited third volume in Christopher Paolini’s four volume Inheritance cycle, arrived last Friday night, September 20, at midnight. In a record for Random House Children’s Books, the book sold 550,000 copies in its first day - four times the first day sales of the previous title, Eldest. More than 2,500 bookstores held midnight parties. Random House UK also reported the highest first-day sales for any children's book they have published.
Last month, Little Brown sold 1.3 million copies of Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn on its first 24-hours. And the record that may never be broken: the final Harry Potter volume, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sold 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours in July 2007.
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