Amazon.com tops 560,000 HBP pre-orders

Amazon.com announced today that more than 560,000 copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince have been pre-ordered through their website to date. They have also added an "Hour-by-Hour Harry Potter Meter" on their site, showing the exact number of pre-orders of the book (right now it's at 567,985). 789,000 copies of Order of the Phoenix were pre-ordered through Amazon.com in 2003.

Update: According to The Guardian, Bloomsbury's stock rose 7.5 points today (to 377.7 points) due to Amazon's announcement. And now, less than ten hours after we posted this story, more than 10,000 additional copies of the book have been pre-ordered

Its now 588,353 books!! I'm one of them!!!!😃 28 days to go!!!!

wow i hope all of us get the copy soon.. i really can't wait....

i m gettin mad of waitin and waitin