* The author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, is estimated to be worth $1.1 billion and is richer than Queen Elizabeth. * The British edition of 7th book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is 608 pages long. The super-sized U.S. edition is 784 pages. * Worldwide sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows have topped 300,000,000 copies. * The books have been translated into 66 other languages, including Serbian, ancient Greek and Chinese. * 500 copies of the first edition, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, were published by Bloomsbury in 1997. Surviving copies now change hands at up to $40,000 a copy. * Rowling’s fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoneix, sold 6,900,000 copies in 24 hours - more than The Da Vinci Code sold in a year. * Of the four Harry Potter films released to date, three are in the Top 10 of worldwide box office receipts. * There are more than 400 licensed Harry Potter products, including video games and an iPod. Get the latest Harry Potter book:
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