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WEEK IN REVIEW: Harry Potter fever.
Crain's New York Business, February, 2007
Byline: from staff reports and bloomberg news reports The seventh and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will go on sale July 21. The book will likely mean big bucks for its American publisher, Scholastic Inc. The Harry Potter series has sold 325 million copies worldwide and contributed more than $800 million to revenues at Manhattan-based Scholastic.
Another Harry Potter movie, the fifth, will be released on July 13. Yankee stadium hosts All-Stars yankee stadium was officially tapped as the site of Major League Baseball's 2008 All-Star Game. Officials expect the game to have an economic impact on the city of $148.4 million. Merrill buys bank merrill lynch & co. agreed to buy San Francisco-based First Republic for $1.8...
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