J.K. Rowling fairy tales sell for $4M
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A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for nearly $4 million at auction Thursday. The buyer, Web retailer Amazon.com Inc., now owns one of only seven copies of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," which is leather bound with silver mounts.
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A hand-written and illustrated tale of  wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched 1.95 million  pounds ($3.98 million) -- nearly 40 times its expected price --  at auction on Thursday.
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A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000.  The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed "Joanne Rowling" on the b...
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The latest Harry Potter film takes a record-breaking $12m (Â£6m) at midnight screenings in the US.
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The final Harry Potter book will have a record breaking, back breaking first printing of 12 million copies, Scholastic, Inc., announced Wednesday.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - The seventh and final Harry Potter book flew off the shelves on Saturday as fans the world over snapped up copies to discover the fate of the boy wizard and his Hogwarts pals.
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A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000. The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed "Joanne Rowling" on the back of the title page, was sold to an anonymous private bidder for $40,326 at Christie's auction house.
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Deathly Hallows becomes world's fastest-selling book, with 2.7m copies in 24 hours sold in UK alone.
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Auction site 'humiliated' and 'harassed' The row continues between eBay and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.â¦
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Revenues at online retailer Amazon.com get a boost from sales of the latest Harry Potter book.
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J.K. Rowling, author of the very popular Harry Potter series, is backing the search for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann. Rowling has asked her 65 publishers to distribute a poster of the missing girl to stores selling her final Harry Potter book...
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HARRY Potter author JK Rowling gave fans an early Christmas gift yesterday by revealing her new book will be published on July 16.
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The seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series has become online retailer Amazon's most pre-ordered product, with almost 1.6 million copies bought globally ahead of the book's release on July 21.
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"These initiatives will help underpin the long-term success of the business between 2008-2012"  The final installment of the Harry Potter series is on track to break previous sales records as its British publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, revealed Thursday that export orders are already 17 percent ... via KCBY-TV Coos Bay
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Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury unveils plans to eke extra revenue from JK Rowling's phenomenon.
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The last book in the world-shaking Harry Potter series headed Sunday for new sales records as millions of readers across the globe rushed to find out the fate of the bespectacled boy wizard.
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The final book in the world-shaking Harry Potter series headed Sunday for new sales records as millions of readers across the globe rushed to find out the fate of the bespectacled boy wizard.