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Amidst the impending job lay-offs in Scholastic, Harry Potter still makes his magic over his American publishers as he helps in driving up Scholastic’s global sales. Strong performances in the UK, Australia and Asia has contributed the increase of Scholastic’s global sales by 15 %. The last Potter book, The Deathly Hallows was released in July 2007 and has sold about 44 million copies ever since.

Other children books also contributed to this success such as Star Wars, The Invention of Hugo Cabret and How to be the Best at Everything (The Girls and Boys Book).

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More promotional pictures of The Half-Blood Prince products have emerged online. It features Harry, Dumbledore, Slughorn and Draco. To view them, you can view them here.

***thanks to harrypotterspage.com***

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Forbes has released their annual list of richest celebrities (and highest paid actors/actresses) and it came no surprise that Harry Potter author, JK Rowling topped the list. Though she only came in 9th at the Most Powerful celebrities list, Ms. Rowling still out-earned them all, earning a whopping $300 million last year (she even beat out talk show queen, Oprah Winfrey). Her success last year came in part with the release of the last Potter book, The Deathly Hallows, which caused fan-frenzy around the world.

Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe also topped the list for the richest teen celebrity. He shared the honors with Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana, both earning $25 million each. His co-stars, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint also made the list coming in at #7 and # 9, earning $5.5 million and $5 million respectively.

***thanks to The Guardian***

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The Daily Mail has posted a new picture of Rupert Grint (aka Ron Weasley) from his new movie, Cherry Bomb. (Warning: A word for caution for some fans, Rupert is blooded and bruised up in this photo. If you want to view the photo, click here.) Cherry Bomb is a coming – of -age story, where two young boys vie for the attention of one girl, who is not as innocent as she appeared to be.

The film also stars James Nesbitt, Kimberly Nixon and Robert Sheehan.

***thanks to Daily Mail***

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In Entertainment Weekly’s list of New classic Death Scenes, Cedric Diggory’s (Robert Pattinson) demise in the hands of Lord Voldemort was listed down as one of them.

***thanks to Entertainment Weekly***

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Japanese Potter fans waited eagerly in lines as bookstores around Japan opened yesterday to release the final Potter book, The Deathly Hallows, in Japanese. Dressed in witches or hogwarts costumes, fans snapped up copies of the book, one year after the original version was released.

Online bookstore Amazon Japan has said that it has received about 95,000 orders for the Japanese version, the most ever for a Potter book, topping its best-seller chart. Some of the excitement though has dwindled as the readers have inevitably found out much of the plot since the English version was published last year.

“The readership isn’t so zealous, even though we thought they would get more excited over the final novel,” said Shiro Nakamura, the store manager of the Yaesu bookstore near central Tokyo Station.

Click here to read a similar report from Mainichi Daily News.

***thanks to AFP****

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