Harry Potter sells 5 million copies on its first day. “That is nearly twice as many as the estimated sales in 12 months of last year’s best-selling novel in hardcover, “The Summons,” by John Grisham.” The book even outsold the weekend’s blockbuster movie. “The five million copies sold, at retail prices from $17 to $30, surpassed the first weekend’s box office for the latest blockbuster movie, ‘Hulk,’ which sold $62.6 million in tickets in its three-day opening weekend.”
Tag: 06.23.03
Opera – State Of The Art
Opera America meets in St. Louis to discuss the state of the art. “On one hand Opera America touts opera’s growth in the last 20 years: more than half of its 119 member companies were founded after 1970, and the organization reports growing and increasingly younger audiences. On the other hand the troubled economic climate has meant shrinking endowments, a falloff in donations and a consequent need for companies to rethink and even to restructure along conventional business lines.”