File 001 · Category Openers
Record 054 · Culture · 1997
97.54.KHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Bloomsbury / Scholastic
“A children's novel that rebuilt reading-for-pleasure and a $25B+ franchise.”
The boy who lived.
500-copy U.K. first printing. Midnight release parties, films, parks, and a shared canon that defined millennial childhood.
Units. 120+ million for book one; 500+ million for the series
SIC
2731
Books: Publishing, or Publishing and Printing
NAICS
513130
Book Publishers
