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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 learn to sink a corner jumper. She created an industry with only the vision in her mind.

From the first pencil scratches of a penniless mother in 1996, her created world has grown to what Advertising Age estimates is now a $15 billion business. Even better, I see this as a business with a very long tail, as the millions of readers, many of them adolescents, will canonize the series and lovingly share it with their own children.

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