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Photos: Harry Potter and the logistical nightmare

Once more into the breach for Amazon.co.uk...

By Will Sturgeon on 13 July 2005 16:13

The operation to ensure all Harry Potter fans receive their books on the day of release from Amazon.co.uk is a mammoth task. The company has a 200,000 square foot high-security warehouse where the books are kept prior to despatch.

Staff are "carefully hand-picked", according to a spokeswoman, and the company is legally bound by an agreement with publisher Bloomsbury to keep many of the details surrounding the release and despatch of the books a closely guarded secret.

Photos: Amazon.co.uk

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  1. 1. JerryK

    Of course, they could stack them twice as high in half the space.

    • 14 July 2005 10:30
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  2. 2. Julian Hicks

    ...or if they stacked them 4 times as high they would take up only a quarter of the floor space......or....

    • 15 July 2005 13:36
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  3. 3. Mike Paterson

    Shame they were only able to deliver 1 of the 2 copies I ordered and the other has not arrived in today's post either.

    I now have to go to a traditional store to buy it!

    • 18 July 2005 11:51
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