http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993799Harry Potter 5 has already sold more than a million
in advance sales, 17 days before the announced publishing date (through Amazon).
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)