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The Harry Potter Finance Quiz
More Harry Potter news Tom Barlow: The Harry Potter Finance Quiz Gary E. Sattler: New York Times bestseller list leaves Harry Potter out Tom Barlow: Harry Potter ending: A water cooler cheat sheet Zac Bissonnette: With Harry Potter done, is it ...
The Harry Potter magic turns film into gold
With a $44.8 million day, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix set a new record for Wednesday premieres. Twelve million copies of Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows are flying off the presses of Scholastic Corp.'s (NASDAQ:SCHL) Scholastic Press ...
Readers wager on Harry Potter's suicide
BloggingStocks's Tom Barlow is pretty sure that Harry Potter isn't about to meet his untimely demise, but a lof of gamblers aren't so sure: According to Bloomberg, "William Hill Plc, a London-based bookmaker, closed bets on Harry sacrificing himself ...
New York Times bestseller list leaves Harry Potter out
(Scholastic Press, NYSE: SCHL)'s Harry Potter won't rank on the New York Times (The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT))' best sellers list. You might wonder how could that could possibly be true. It's simple. In a move which is said to have been a ...
Why I am not wasting a baby sitter on Harry Potter
Maybe at 39, I am too old and cynical to fall under the spell of Harry Potter. Maybe my nine-month-old son will one day become a fan of the teenage wizard. Until then, I shall avoid all Potter books and movies even though I am one of the few people ...
With Harry Potter done, is it time for Scholastic to sell itself?
It might seem hard to imagine, but the success of the Harry Potter franchise over the past decade has done little to bolster the fortunes of its publisher, Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL). With a market cap of $1.4 billion, the company may not be worth ...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Will Rowling kill off Harry?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling is scheduled to be published by Scholastic Press (NASDAQ: SCHL) on July 21, and some fans are speculating that Harry will die. I am quite confident in telling you that he won't, for several ...
Not even Harry can save bookstores from their fate
Even with magic as strong as Harry Potter's, Publisher's Weekly reported today that bookstore sales continued to fall for the fifth consecutive month. According to the U.S. Census bureau, sales in May were down 4.3%, to $1.10 billion. However, ...
Harry Potter and the Pots of Gold
In the run up to this weekend's release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I stand in awe at the product of J.K. Rowling's imagination. She didn't strike oil, or invent a new telephone, or ...
Universal to create Harry Potter theme park
Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) Warner Brothers and General Electric's (NYSE: GE) Universal Studios have pulled off the magic trick of the decade by gaining the rights to create a theme park based on J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series. "The Wizarding ...
Harry Potter ending: A water cooler cheat sheet
For those of you who want to take part in the Harry Potter (Scholastic Press, NYSE: SCHL) water cooler chatter but don't have the time to plow through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, we have prepared this summary: The last novel of the series ...
Amazon lower after Harry Potter weekend
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) opened at $71.78. So far today the stock has hit a low of $70.85 and a high of $72.67. As of 11:00 this morning, AMZN is trading at $71.30, down $0.33 (-0.5%). The stock began a sharp climb in mid-spring this year, ...
Harry Potter doesn't even need Muggle marketing
Boarding a train into Manhattan on Monday night, I found myself in a seat (rare in itself) across from an Oxford-wearing twenty-something engrossed in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth tale in the series, released just last week in ...
Harry Potter waves wand for record sales -- but no profits for bookstores
While the upcoming release of the seventh and final volume in the Harry Potter series will certainly give a boost to Scholastic's (NASDAQ: SCHL) bottom-line, don't expect booksellers to get the benefit. Deep discounts at retail will make it ...
Seventh Harry Potter book to be split in two for film
The Wall Street Journal reported [subscription required] this morning that Time Warner (NYSE: TWX)'s Warner Bros. Pictures plans to film the adaptation of the seventh "Harry Potter" book in two parts. The first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly ...
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