Harry Potter fans have listened to audiobooks of the series for more than one billion hours on Audible. The milestone was reached seven years after the JK Rowling books - narrated in the UK versions by Stephen Fry - were put on the Amazon-owned platform.
Pottermore Publishing said that in one billion hours you could listen to Harry Potter books one to seven 8,547,009 times, or hypothetically go through Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry more than 14,000 times. Fry said: “These statistics are astonishing. Almost every day someone will come up and tell me how important the audiobooks have been in their lives, and it means the world to me.
"From the first book, when it was all there was of Harry Potter in the world, to the final novel when the series had confirmed itself as the publishing phenomenon of our age, the experience was never anything other than a total and eternally surprising joy for me. Hurrah for Harry and hurrah for all those listeners.”
