[thechat] Harry Potter

**1st Vamp** wes at pmason.karoo.co.uk
Sun Jun 22 15:37:37 CDT 2003


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Watching the recent J.K. Rowling interview on BBC 2 (Thursday night), most of this is
complete hogwash.
Just because someones making money off something doesn't make her satan. She tells a good
tale, and she gets money for it.
It doesn't make her a saint either, but I think she handles fame and fortune rather well
considering.

As for the list price of Book 5, it's about 4x larger than the first book, so funnily
enough it's going to be a bit more expensive.
In the UK it's being sold for about £8 by a few retailers.

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Sunday, June 22, 2003, 8:39:22 PM, Madhu Menon wrote:

> At 01:06 AM 23-06-03, deacon b. wrote:
>>She's probably getting 15% royalties. If they move 2
>>million copies, that's $9 million in royalties. Is that
>>*all* her income? Obviously not. But $9 is significant
>>to ANYONE.

> And then there's the shitloads of money through merchandise sales - Harry
> Potter posters, t-shirts, mugs, bags, action figures, [insert every item
> known to mankind here]

> The woman's close to being richer than the Queen of England.

> Madhu

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