So it's cool to note that Harry Potter websites, like the Leaky Cauldron, popped up in cyberspace around the time Azkaban was released. Back in the day, people used dial-up (slower than dinosaurs), AOL was all the rage, and pretty lame looking websites hosted on GeoCities and Tripod were the norm. Crazy as it may seem, there was a time when the Internet wasn't all that big – no, no, we're not making that up. It's also cool to see how the birth of the Harry Potter phenomenon coincided with the rise of the Internet. And there were already a lot of impatient fans all the way back in 1999. Disproportionate numbers of Americans would be on planes to London. Can you imagine that delay occurring for Book 6? There would be rioting in the streets. In this case, Azkaban came out in Britain in July 1999 Americans had to wait until September to get their hands on it. See, for the first three novels, Britain got the books before the United States did. This was the last time that a new Harry Potter book was released out of sync as well, much to the relief of newly obsessed American fans. Case in point: check out the huge upswing in interviews that J.K. It was already big in Britain, but it became much more of a worldwide phenomenon after Azkaban (and for good reason, as we'll see). And this happens to be the novel that really kicked off the Harry Potter craze in America.

Published in 1999, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Introduction

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