Rowling's Road To Riches

[dgridley]

With the new Harry Potter book coming out, take a look at these figures:

How many Harry Potter books exist in the world?

There are 250 million books worldwide, and 103 million in print in the United States. The Web site www.languagebooks.com.au/sitepages/page125.asp offers up numerous Potter fun facts, including these:

• If all Harry Potter books ever sold were placed end to end, they would go around the equator 1.4 times.

• If all the Harry Potter books ever sold were laid flat, they would cover the area of about 1,000 soccer fields. Or they could be used to carpet Monaco 3.7 times.

• On its first day of sales in the United Kingdom, "Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix" sold at a rate of 21 books per second.

• If all those books sold in the U.K. in the first day were stacked up, the pile would be 12 times higher than Mount Everest.

• If one person were to read every Harry Potter book ever sold — at a rate of one per day — it would take him or her more than 700,000 years to do so.

• The total number of Harry Potter books ever sold is more than the populations of Britain, France, Germany and Italy combined.

No wonder J.K. Rowling is so rich...

 

[vip-ip]

:D lol
Gotta finish my eBook now :gl:

 

[GeneCosta]

Atleast she deserves it. She worked to make that money, instead of filming a movie or playing 5 years of sports and suddenly bringing in millions.

 

[thetzfreak]

Wow, there's some interested facts!

Shizzit, the book's $35.00...

 

[jeter4982]

Wow, those are some very interesting facts. The only thing I disagree with her on, is that she waited so long in between releases of the books. IMO, she lost a whold group of readers, who were kids for the first couple of books, but now teenagers, and no longer interested for these later books.

Tom

 

[dgridley]

We actually had a couple teens at work last night that wanted off so they could go pick up their copy of the book.

IMO, she lost a whold group of readers, who were kids for the first couple of books, but now teenagers, and no longer interested for these later books.

Tom

 

[-JDT-]

Have you heard?
"Pope Opposes Harry Potter Novels - Signed Letters from Cardinal Ratzinger Now Online"
(?)
Take a look..
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071301.html

 

[vip-ip]

They lost me :$ Last book I read was back in Russia when I was 10, it was the 4th book.

 

[dgridley]

Half Blood Prince is already online at the warez sites (not the fan fiction).. they don't waste much time, do they?

 

[The Equivocate]

Wow, those are some very interesting facts. The only thing I disagree with her on, is that she waited so long in between releases of the books. IMO, she lost a whold group of readers, who were kids for the first couple of books, but now teenagers, and no longer interested for these later books.

Tom

All my friends are going into college and I know a LOT of them that waited in line to get their copy of the book... adults, too. It's not just a children's book.

 

[Sabre]

I don't mind the books, theyve just got a bit boring for me.....

 

[vip-ip]

Dumbledore dies in this book if I'm not mistaken.

 

[zaros64]

Wow, there's some interested facts!

Shizzit, the book's $35.00...

Dumbledore dies in this book if I'm not mistaken.

YEah.. crap I got a fright when that happened.. took me ten fricken hours to read and dumbledore dies

And the book only cost 27 Dollars NZD here.. thats like 20 dollars USD lol

 

[HFear]

Dumbledore dies in this book if I'm not mistaken.

Rats! Should of warned us before posting this spoiler.

 

[jeter4982]

All my friends are going into college and I know a LOT of them that waited in line to get their copy of the book... adults, too. It's not just a children's book.

No, I know a lot of adults love the Harry Potter books as well, I just think the books could have been released closer together, so that people didn't forget what happened and be forced to reread the past books.

Tom