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Quoted from pinball_erie:The HP author stated that pinball is an activity that takes place in "seedy" places and didn't want her story associated with such establishments. She is an egomaniac that needs to be paid attention to, especially after her failed book where she wanted to establish herself as an author of more than just HP.
You don't become a self made billionaire by being an idiot. If JJP got face time with her and showed her what was done with WOZ and how the pin market has evolved to family game rooms her perception of pins would change with a single meeting.
Quoted from gambit3113:Not even close. A Tale of Two Cities has sold more than 200 million copies. The Hobbit, 150 million. The last book in the Harry Potter series is the only one that registers on the top selling books list, at somewhere around #30 @ 40 million copies sold. Of modern releases, The Da Vinci Code has sold approximately double the number of the highest sold Potter book.
And I read them thorough about half the fifth book, which it put down because it was droll, long, and I realized I was reading a children's story I didn't care about. I have suffered through more hours of those stupid movies than I would ever like to admit. I just don't like the material.
Total series, over 400million.
Quoted from gambit3113:7 books combined. But that isn't what is measured. Single volume sales are not really that high on the list.
I understand that, still ALOT of books sold for what essentially is a single story spread out over 7 volumes.
Quoted from pinball_erie:That was my point exactly, she would bend to a lot of the previous stances she has made with the right coercing and an apparent need to have her ego stroked. With the number of WOZ pins being sold to the home user outnumbering the "seedy" locations, I think she COULD be convinced.
My impression of watching and reading her comments via interviews is anything but egotistical. She doesn't come from money and she earned her wealth later in life by working for it. She is, however, very protective of the HP brand...as she should be.
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