Another reader spotted this confirmation of the Harry Potter sequel in this week’s Sunday Mercury: Plans for a sequel to the big Harry Potter movie have been unveiled, even before The Philosopher’s Stone finishes shooting. A movie version of author JK Rowling’s second book, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, will begin filming in …read more!

Our faithful Sunday Express reader sent us this article of J.K. Rowling’s Astrology chart. I hope it’s better than Professor Trelawney would do: Harry Potter author JK ROWLING has made a pot of money for her publisher, but a church in America is burning her books. What’s the subtext? BEVERLEY GLICK looks at her chart …read more!

A reader emailed us that Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports Harry Potter German publisher Carlsen Verlag is doing very well: The young magician Harry Potter has shaken up the publishing sector in Germany, causing Carlsen Verlag, the publisher of the four volumes in the country, to jump from 77th to 22nd place on the list of …read more!

According to the Winnipeg Free Press, Harry Potter is helping to rid the world of the “four-eyes” nerd stereotype.

It seems that Australia takes it’s mention in Quidditch Through the Ages seriously.

The New York Times printed a hilarious April Fool’s look at Quidditch – game of the future.

Harry Potter Galleries reports on NASA’s Picture of the Day for “April Fools” which was the first Quidditch Match in Space. 😉

Over the weekend the New York Times printed an article about the Nancy Stouffer vs. J.K. Rowling row regarding Rowling’s supposed “rip off” of Stouffer’s books. While the article doesn’t seem to cover Rowling’s side of the story (ie no remarks from Rowling, her lawyers, Scholastic etc), the article does present some interesting point’s I’ve …read more!

The Boston Globe had a one, two punch yesterday with articles about what to read while waiting for Book 5 to come out next year and a review of the two recent textbooks – Fantastic Beasts… and Quidditch.

Newsday also picked up on the announcement made by the NPD Group last week: MARKET RESEARCH NPD Tracking ‘Potter’ Phenomenon There’s no doubt that “Harry Potter” is a publishing phenomenon (48 million books sold in the United States and counting). If there’s any question that Harry is headed to become a marketing phenomenon, consider this: …read more!