JK Rowling, author of the famous and incredibly lucrative Harry Potter series, has left a UK charity supporting multiple sclerosis because the organization has internally combusted over personal differences. Rowling, who has been a huge supporter of the charity MS Society Scotland, apparently had enough of the bickering and has dropped her support. This, after [...]
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It’s only been 14 days since JK Rowling’s latest piece of the Harry Potter empire hit bookshelves, and already it’s the top selling book of 2008 on both sides of the Atlantic, rocking the USA Today and Daily Telegraph charts. Titled “The Tales of Beedle the Bard”, the book is a collection of five fairy [...]
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As expected, Harry Potter author JK Rowling is taking The Tales of Beedle the Bard into mass production. The collection of fairy tales, which was referenced in Deathly Hollows, was initially part of a handwritten set, one of which Rowling auctioned off last December for a record amount of $4 million dollars.
That money went straight [...]
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Earlier this week, the teasing taste of a Harry Potter prequel was auctioned off for almost $50k. The handwritten 800-word treatment was part of a lot of 13 ’storycards’ by various authors, with JK Rowling’s contribution the obvious star of the group. The charity auction was organized to raise funds for English PEN and Dyslexia Action.
The [...]
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There’s a battle going down over the world of Harry Potter, and this one is taking place in a location more terrifying than the deepest recesses of Azkaban. That’s right, the US Court system.
JK Rowling and Co. have submitted an injunction against Michigan-based publisher, RDR Books, to prevent publication of the Harry Potter Lexicon, an [...]
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It was expected to only sell for about $100,000. However, much like magical world from whence it came from, JK Rowling’s limited edition handwritten book defied all expectations. At an auction at Sotheby’s today, “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” fetched almost $4 million dollars. That price broke a number of records as the highest [...]
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Author JK Rowling has written a not-so-secret companion piece to the Harry Potter series that’s set to go under the auction block at London’s Sotheby’s on December 13. Titled The Tales Of Beedle The Bard, the book contains five fairy tales given to Potter character Hermione Granger by Albus Dumbledore in the final book of [...]
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