JK Rowling a Billionaire, Thanks to Harry Potter

For the first time, JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, has been recognized as a billionaire on Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest people. According to the Forbes article, "Harry Potter is now a billion-dollar branding empire. The five Potter books have sold 250 million copies worldwide in 55 languages, including Latin and Ancient Greek. Rowling's latest installment, 'Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix,' sold 12 million copies in the United States alone after its June release, and earned Scholastic, her American publisher,...$185 million in just six months."

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