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The Tales of the Beetle Bard by JK Rowling On Sale Dec 4th

by Avid Reader on July 31, 2008

in Avid Musings

JK Rowl­ing will pub­lish her story of “wiz­ard­ing fairy tales” with plans to donate all monies to the Children’s Voice cam­paign. The Tales of the Bee­tle Bard was sup­pos­edly men­tioned in Harry Pot­ter and the Deathly Hol­lows. It was a book given to Hermione from Dum­b­le­dore. I know I got hit with an email early this morn­ing from […]

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News: Internet and Copyright Law

by Avid Reader on April 28, 2008

in Avid Musings

I’m very inter­ested in the res­o­lu­tion of the JK Rowl­ing case as it does spot­light one the com­plex issues of “fair use” and copy­right law. It is inter­est­ing to note that JK Rowl­ing her­self admit­ted to using the Harry Pot­ter Lex­i­con and endorsed it on the ‘net but when the cre­ator of this web­site decided […]

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JK Rowling Goes to Court over Harry Potter

by Avid Reader on April 14, 2008

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British best-selling and bil­lion­aire author, JK Rowl­ing is going to court to stop the pub­lish­ing of a Harry Pot­ter ency­clo­pe­dia that she says has crushed her cre­ativ­ity. Does her actions come off jus­ti­fied or heart­less?
via CNN

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Author News: JK Rowling Had Suffered From Depression

by Avid Reader on March 26, 2008

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Appar­ently, best-selling author, JK Rowl­ing, told a stu­dent reporter a month ago, about her bouts with depres­sion in her mid-20’s before the suc­cess of her Harry Pot­ter books. She even had “sui­ci­dal thoughts” and did seek ther­apy and recov­ered.
Are we as read­ers going to con­tinue to get this type of break­ing news from Rowl­ing until she […]

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JK Rowling Drops Hints of Possible Sequel for Potter Fans

by Avid Reader on January 3, 2008

in Avid Musings

British nov­el­ist, JK Rowl­ing ended her Harry Pot­ter series…or did she? In her inter­view with Time mag­a­zine, she hinted that there might be a 8th Pot­ter book but Harry wouldn’t be the cen­tral character. After 7 books, the author has her moments of “weak­ness” after hav­ing said good-bye to her char­ac­ters. Rowling’s 14 year old daugh­ter has been […]

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