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Following the weekend of staggering sales, retailers nationwide were clamoring for more copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. On Wednesday, June 25, Scholastic announced that it was going back to press for a third printing of 800,000 copies of Harry V.
John Burdett wanted to capture a place that hadn't been explored all that much in previous detective thrillers. "I thought Bangkok really hadn't been done the way Los Angeles, New York, and Paris had been done," he told BTW. His original intention was to write a relatively conventional book.
In late October, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories conducted a two-week observational study on the buying behavior of patrons at a large independent bookstore, Kepler's Books & Magazines in Menlo Park, California. The results of the study were informative, and, in some cases, surprising, noted Kepler's Clark Kepler. "It was interesting to see the store through a third party's eyes," he said.