The Lost Symbol

Windows 7 to Harry Potter: Expelliarmus

John Paczkowski in News on October 21, 2009 at 10:01 am PT

Here’s an interesting Windows 7 stat as we near the operating system’s official release: It’s Amazon U.K.’s biggest pre-ordered product of all time. In fact, the online retailer has received more pre-orders for Windows 7 than it did for J.K. Rowling’s final “Harry Potter” book.

Kindle Averts Battle Over Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol"

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Book Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 13, 2009 at 3:30 pm PT

Many publishers were eager to see if Random House would challenge Amazon’s strategy of pricing the book industry’s most successful titles at $9.99 for the Kindle e-reader by withholding the e-book edition of Dan Brown’s upcoming novel, “The Lost Symbol.”