Lawyers for RDR Books have filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals regarding Judge Robert P. Patterson’s ruling in J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros.’s copyright infringement suit against the publisher. The appeal was filed on November 7 by RDR’s legal team, which includes lawyers from the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. In September, Judge Patterson ruled in favor of Rowling, issuing a permanent injunction against the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steven Vander Ark and awarding damages in the amount of $6,750.
Care for a cup of tea with J. K. Rowling? To celebrate the U.S. release of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Scholastic, Rowling’s U.S. publisher, is sponsoring a national essay contest for U.S. kids—and the five winners and their chaperones get an all-expense paid trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, to attend an exclusive event at the National Library of Scotland.The December 4, 2008 celebration includes a children’s tea party, where Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter books, will read from Beedle the Bard and then take part in a question-and-answer session hosted by Barry Cunningham, publisher of the Chicken House imprint and Rowling’s first editor. read more...
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While British readers have been able to pick up the paperback edition of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows since July, fans in this country will have to wait a bit longer. Scholastic has announced that the U.S. paperback will arrive on July 7, 2009, just a few weeks ahead of the big-screen debut of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was pushed back to July 17 from a planned release this November. The U.S. paperback will pub two years after the 2007 hardcover publication of Deathly Hallows, and almost exactly one year after the British paperback release. That edition sold more than 46,000 copies in its first few days on the market, with British supermarket chain Asda nabbing 79% of the initial sales, following a limited-time £1 “Magic Price” promotion, according to the Bookseller. (Asda’s deep discounting drew complaints from booksellers, and the Guardian’s Book Blog contemplated whether this had diminished the Potter brand.) |
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| Many Harry fans came to the read-a-thon in costume. |
On September 1, 1998, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released in the U.S. Since it was the first book of the series, no one was eagerly anticipating its release, as they did for the more recent installments, so there was no fanfare. Now that the book has been out for 10 years and has sold over 120 million copies, Scholastic decided to celebrate the aniversary with an all-day read-a-thon at its headquarters in Manhattan. Hundreds of Harry Potter fans sat in J.K. Rowling’s throne (the one she read from at Radio City) and read, bit by bit, the entire book over the course of the day, as thousands more fans watched via a live webcast from home or school. read more
Paolini, in his first
public reading of Brisingr,
in New York City.
Photo: Lisa Berg.
Brisingr (Knopf), the long-awaited third volume in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle, arrived last Friday night, September 20, at midnight. In a record for Random House Children’s Books, the book sold 550,000 copies in its first day.
Random had printed 2.5 million copies of Brisingr, the largest-ever first printing for the division. First-day sales for the title were four times that of Eldest, second in the cycle, which pubbed in August 2005. RHCB president Chip Gibson said the numbers for Brisingr “far surpassed our projections.” More than 2,500 bookstores held midnight parties.
Random House U.K., which published the novel simultaneously, reported first-day sales of more than 45,000 copies, “Brisingr is by far and away the fastest-selling book we’ve ever published,” said children’s sales director Helen Randles. The company also called it the fastest-selling children’s book in Britain this year.
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Listen up J. K. Rowling fans: a special anniversary edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, featuring exclusive bonus material from the author, new cover art, and a four-color frontispiece by illustrator Mary Grandpré, will be released on September 23, 2008.
The new cover depicts 11-year-old Harry looking into the Mirror of Erised, which the boy wizard comes across during his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and learns that the mirror shows more than what one desires. read more...
