According to Publishers’ Marketplace, Judge Robert Patterson, Jr., is urging RDR and Rowling to settle.
Patterson said, “The fair-use people are on one side, and a large company is on the other side…The parties ought to see if there’s not a way to work this out, because there are strong issues in this [...]

Remember when the UK was agog (and the webosphere) with Daniel Radcliffe’s not so throbbing, but nude, member (this whole thing makes me throw up a little in my mouth since I’m old enough to be Radcliffe’s mother and the idea of the little wizard of the boy wizard dangling out there is a bit [...]

Keishon blogged that JK Rowling was interviewed for Time Magazine and dropped hints of a possible 8th harry Potter book. She appears wistful about the end of the series and might not ready to let go. The 8th book would feature a different central character than Harry but set in the same [...]

Scholastic wants to maintain its position as King of the Kids and with the Harry Potter book franchise in the past, it has decided to announce the Harry Potter successor. The winner is a 10 book seres called “The 39 Clues”. The first book goes on sale September 2008 and will be [...]

The lawsuit by J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers was filed on October 31, 2007. Immediately thereafter, the district court judge entered an Order requiring the Lexicon publisher to show cause why an injunction shouldn’t be filed against it halting further production of the Lexicon book.
This is a case of David v. Goliath. Local [...]

The great thing about being a children’s celebrity is that you can act like a jerk and the majority of your fans aren’t going to be the least bit aware. Rowlings non stop attempts to prevent anyone from doing anything that remotely resembles her work is becoming tiresome.
Last month, news of JK [...]

Warner Home Video is going to include a two additional versions of the Harry Potter movie in its latest DVD release. One for the PC and one for digital media devices. There is no word as to how the digital movie file will be encrypted although ArsTechnica speculates that it will be [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold a purported 8 million copies within the first 24 hours but because of deep discounts bookstores made almost nothing on the sales. What it did do, however, was sell alot of other books, mostly Potter related books. In another first, the top 15 is dominated by [...]

You probably couldn’t miss the business reports of the Harry Potter sales that dominated headlines yesterday. The first run printing was 12 million copies and a reported 8.3 million sold in the first 24 hours according to figures in USA Today.
When I look at the Potter mania, partly induced by the media, partly induced [...]

No one but she and her publishing company are actually going to make money off the millions of Deathly Hollows books sold. Amazon has over 1,000,000 pre-orders world wide. Bookstores are planning events. But because discount competition is so fierce, the book will be sold at cost or at a loss. [...]