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Forget franchising potential or the number of weeks on bestseller lists, in a recent rank by The Guardian, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was named as one of “English literature’s 50 key moments”.
Some people celebrate holidays, birthdays – even the day you get your paycheck – but the nerdiest Potter fans among us have something else to think about today, January 6, 2013. Did you know that on this day in 1994 Harry Potter began to take lessons with Professor Lupin so that he could learn the high-level Patronus Charm, a magical defense against Dementors?
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For all of you fantasy book fans, especially those of the Harry Potter series, you will be pleased to know that the Potter series has ranked in the latest list of Best Novels of the 20th and 21st Century by BroadwayWorld.com.
Great news for blind or visually impaired Potter fans! The fifth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has been formatted into Braille. The fifth book is the longest of the seven, and it might seem like a brick at 765 pages for the UK Edition, but printed in Braille, Order of the Phoenix is multiple volumes that reach two feet in height when stacked on top of each other.
Book / Charity / J.K. Rowling / News
Today, J.K. Rowling has announced that all of the proceeds from the eBook sales for The Tales of Beedle the Bard will be given to her charity, Lumos. Lumos was launched on February 25,...
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Even with this current economical situation around the world, the value of a true collectible continues to grow, as seen by the all-time high price tag for a unique Harry Potter book. AbeBooks is...
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MuggleNet launches Banned Book Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read, which begins Sunday, September 30 and goes until October 6, with a special video that was created from Bookmans Bookstore, a used bookstore chain...
Beginning on Wednesday, September 26 and ending on Saturday, September 29, four books related to the Harry Potter series will be available for FREE on Kindle to celebrate the release of J.K. Rowling’s The...
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Recently, “Amazon.com” reported that the “Hunger Games” Trilogy had surpassed the “Harry Potter” series in total sales to become the Best-Selling Book Series on “Amazon”. “Harry Potter” fans were not pleased with this, so two of our MuggleNet Staff members decided to write an editorial to try and explain how this was even possible.
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