5 posts and columns on JK Rowling

Incendio! Pottermore E-Book Sales on Fire.

in Media on April 4 at 1:52 pm PT

$1.5 million worth of Harry Potter books sold in Pottermore’s first three days online.
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Harry Potter Is the New iPhone

in News on July 19, 2007 at 2:52 am PT

With the mania around the iPhone subsiding a bit (and just a bit, until the memory of this David Pogue–let’s just say it plain, shall we?–Broadway music video, called “iPhone: The Musical,” for the New York Times about the Apple device also subsides), BoomTown has almost no shame in picking up on the Harry Potter phenom that is about to grip the world when books are officially for sale just after the stroke of midnight Saturday morning.

No Contracts. No Hidden Fees. No Gotchas! … No Company, Either.

in News on July 17, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

I Smell the Work of Lord Voldem … I Mean 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named'

in News on July 17, 2007 at 6:08 am PT

When the manuscript of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”– the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling–was carried by hand from London to New York, the attorney for Scholastic, the book’s American publisher, sat on it throughout the flight. When it was bound and printed, the factory workers who [...]

I Smell the Work of Lord Voldem … I Mean ‘He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’

in News on July 17, 2007 at 6:08 am PT

When the manuscript of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”– the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling–was carried by hand from London to New York, the attorney for Scholastic, the book’s American publisher, sat on it throughout the flight. When it was bound and printed, the factory workers who [...]