by Dave
Update: I edited this post for some grammatical mistakes. Sorry…I was in a bit of a hurry yesterday when I wrote it.
Jamie and I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly, my favorite section of which is Stephen King’s monthly column in the back of the magazine. While the magazine certainly isn’t especially [...]

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by Dave
Check out this news article from the Chicago Sun-Times. For a charity event, several major UK authors were asked to write something on a card to be auctioned to raise money to help those with dyslexia:
Rowling used both sides of her card to hand-write a prequel to her seven-book Harry Potter saga.
Rowling’s “prequel” [...]

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No, not that court case.  This one:
Harry Potter author JK Rowling won a landmark privacy ruling in her battle to ban publication of covert long lens pictures taken of her son when he was 18 months old.

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For the first time in 10 years, there are no Harry Potter books in the Top Ten Bestseller list.
(HT to Glenn Lucke)

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by Dave
The copyright case Rowling brought against Steve Vander Ark goes to trial this week, as I’m sure some of you read. I’m not going to offer up anything new about the case, copyright infringement, or her ownership over her work (authorial or otherwise).
I thought I’d give you a couple of links:
This one takes [...]

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There are a lot of comments I want to make, and later tonight I may modify this post to include them, but for now, I figured I’d just report it: Rowling’s talking about Dumbledore’s sexuality again, and this statement is packed with stuff that is bound to generate an opinion or two (or thirty).
“It is [...]

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by Johnny
This is several days old, but not covered here. MTV News broke the story about a new study that concludes that Harry Potter, big surprise, can be addictive:
They surveyed fans before the book’s release, upon completion of the book and six months afterwards as a follow-up. The 10 percent of respondents that Rudski considers [...]

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Top 50 Children’s Books of All Time, according to a poll.  Here are the top 20:
1 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, C S Lewis
2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
3 Famous Five series, Enid Blyton
4 Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
5 The BFG, Roald Dahl
6 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J K [...]

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I avoid ’shipping here, but after the debates and disappoinments for Harry/Hermione ’shippers (of which I was not one), there is a touch of vindicating irony in this story.

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by Travis
Rowling rarely mentions Tolkien, but I’ve found in the process of writing my book that she has far more in common with him than I had previously realized. Chalk it up to the Cauldron of Story (which is precisely what I do, actually….) In the recent interview for El Pais, translated (with [...]

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by Dave
I saw this article this morning at IGN. It says the last film’s script has been reportedly split into two films and that the HBP crew have already been notified of the change. Mugglenet is reporting that the original story is in The Daily Mail.
The Daily Mail article makes a [...]

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by Travis
Slate is featuring an article by Tim Wu on the whole Vander Ark Lexicon vs. Rowling thing.  The first link below is just the key paragraphs; the second is the entire article at Slate:

More than 95 theses: J.K. Rowling versus the Harry Potter Lexicon
Slate: J.K. Rowling’s Dark Mark

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by Dave
I know that I’m a bit late on this subject. I’ve been fighting a good case of the flu (which has morphed into a sinus infection), and the Thanksgiving holiday threw me out of the loop, too. Combined with the fact that ideas new to me take some time to percolate and [...]

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J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers are suing RDR Books for the forthcoming “Harry Potter Lexicon” book by Steve Vander Ark.
In a statement on Wednesday, Rowling said even though she loved fan sites, she hoped to write “the definitive Harry Potter encyclopedia, which will include all the material that never made it into the novels” and [...]

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by Dave
Update: Jamie, my wife, has forwarded me a link to an AP news story on Yahoo! The revised reading has begun…
So, we all woke up this weekend with our understanding of our favorite fictional realm…”altered”. I have to admit, my first reaction upon seeing the headline on Yahoo! Saturday morning included [...]

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