Chris Webb

Life After Harry Potter

The Guardian’s Nicholas Clee wonders about the future of the publishing industry after our friend Harry hangs up his robes for good. Even Bloomsbury has Harry headaches. The huge profits that the novels generate lead the City – in many ways, a stupid organism – to expect the company to make high margins in the Potter-less [...]

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New Harry Potter book secretly printed in my backyard

July 21 is right around the corner, and millions of fans are anxiously awaiting the last entry in the Harry Potter series. Many of those books will have been printed in Crawfordsville, IN, a small community about 50 miles west of Indianapolis. “HP books are being printed right here in itty-bitty Crawfordsville,” a local resident, [...]

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