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July 18, 2005

Harry Potter Links

Brian J. turns Harry Potter into a 70s sitcom.
On Saturday, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was selling at a rate of 250,000 books/hour. Based on my own calculations from extrapolating from my Barnes & Nobles' sales CEO Steve Riggio guessed correctly that B&N would sell 50,000/hour. So roughly 1/5 of all Harry Potter sales were from B&N. That's a monster performance.
J.K. Rowling is already thinking of her post-Harry world. She's considering using a pseudonym:

A fake name is very attractive. I'll have less pressure and I can write any old thing I want and people won't be clamoring for it and that might be nice.

Maybe Rowling will start a series of sleazy black romance novels and challenge Zane as the queen of that genre. Some innocent Rowling fans' eyes would pop.