As we have been predicting since early December 2000, AOL Time Warner announced today that they will be closing all 130 Warner Brothers Studio Stores across the country. With the closure of their Web site as well, we predict that the restriction for licensees selling only to retailers with brick-and-mortar stores will change and that …read more!

The American Library Association announced today that complaints against the Harry Potter series have tripled in the past year. Apparently the “ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received 646 challenges in 2000, up from 472 in 1999″.

LEGO Media International has announced today that they will jointly produce two children’s software titles along with Warner Bros. Consumer Products based on the Harry Potter book series. The software will be part of the LEGO Creator series. The first title is due out this Fall, 2001, to coincide with the first movie and will …read more!

Variety discusses how Harry Potter has brought new interest to movie companies buying rights to other children’s stores.