How does pottermore make money

Narrator: J. Rowling is a never-ending vault of stories, so it's no surprise that her fortune is similar. Since the series started in , million copies of Harry Potter books have been sold worldwide. The last book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, broke records to become the fastest-selling fiction book of all time.

And seems to be her best year to date. By Forbes' estimate, Rowling still received 10 million for the less-loved spin-off. Forbes estimates Rowling's received low double-digit millions from the parks, and she's released an entirely new book series under the author name Robert Galbraith. The first three Cormoran Strike books have sold 1. Additionally, Rowling launched her self-proclaimed "digital heart of J.

Rowling's wizarding world" website, Pottermore, in April Despite her huge success, Rowling's path to a magical fortune took more than a snap of her fingers. The original Harry Potter series of seven books, published between and , has sold more than million copies worldwide. In addition to her royalties from books and films, Rowling has retained ebook and audio book publishing rights to the Harry Potter books, which she sells through Pottermore.

Beyond the ecommerce offerings, much of the interactive content on the Pottermore site remains free to users, including new works and previously unpublished writing by Rowling, not to mention spells to charm and stupefy your friends. Media and Telecoms Updated. Written by British author J.

Rowling, the series has sold at least million copies, million more than the next-highest selling series. By comparison, the average traditionally published book sells 3, copies, but as I mentioned above, only about of those sales happen in the first year. So if you want your book to be a best-seller, you should try to sell at least 5, copies in a week — from Monday to Sunday if you want to be a Publishers Weekly best-seller, and from Sunday to Saturday if you want to be a New York Times best-seller.

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