J.K. Gives a Harry Eyeball

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From the magazine issue dated Apr 28, 2008

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What is it about becoming superrich that makes people so greedy—and mean? Last week Harry Potter creator (and gazillionaire) J. K. Rowling was in court trying to stop a former middle-school librarian named Steven Vander Ark from publishing a book called "The Harry Potter Lexicon." He sees it as both a guide and a tribute to the wonderful world of Potter. She thinks it's a rip-off, and a shoddy one at that. "I think there are funny things in there," Rowling told the judge, "and I wrote them." It was all enough to make a grown man cry, and Vander Ark did, on the stand. "It's been difficult," he said, "because there has been a lot of criticism, obviously, and that was never the intention." For shame, J.K. You give all the rest of us Muggles a bad name.

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Posted By: manthasfamily @ 05/20/2008 5:26:38 PM

In the first place it's out right plagiarism, and if she loses every Tom, Dick and Harry can go and take other authors works and do the same thing. I have no sympathy for the guy!
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Posted By: Jim Law @ 04/23/2008 6:43:25 PM

and jco808, how much do you think J.K. Rowling makes off the sale of a single book? It's not that much. If she completely took off the chunk of the price that went to herself, it might make each book about ten cents cheaper. The vast majority goes to publishing costs and to paying cover artists, graphic designers, editors, and the like.
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Posted By: Jim Law @ 04/23/2008 6:42:42 PM

and jco808, how much do you think J.K. Rowling makes off the sale of a single book? It's not that much. If she completely took off the chunk of the price that went to herself, it might make each book about ten cents cheaper. The vast majority goes to publishing costs and to paying cover artists, graphic designers, editors, and the like.