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Seller Inventory More information about this seller Contact this seller. Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory Q Book Description Condition: new. Fast Customer Service!!. Seller Inventory PSN The Harry Potter novels are more than fantasy: there is a toughness to the writing, a sense of realism and a questing morality that go beyond mere adventure, magic and the battle between good and evil.
How those books came to be written, and the influences that shaped both them and their author, form the core of this inspirational biography. Show More Show Less. Best Selling in Books. First, when people could see what other people liked, the inequality of success increased, meaning that popular songs became more popular and unpopular songs became less so.
In the real world, of course, it is impossible to travel back in time and start over, so it is much harder to argue that someone who is incredibly successful may owe his or her success to a combination of luck and cumulative advantage rather than superior talent. But by writing under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, an otherwise anonymous name, Rowling came pretty close to re-creating our experiment, starting over again as an unknown author and publishing a book that would have to succeed or fail on its own merits, just as Harry Potter had to 16 years ago — before anyone knew who Rowling was.
Rowling made a bold move and, no doubt, is feeling vindicated by the critical acclaim the book has received. What is more, had the author actually been Robert Galbraith, the book would almost certainly have continued to languish in obscurity, probably forever. It may be hard for a book to become a runaway bestseller if it is unreadably bad although one may argue that the Twilight series and Fifty Shades of Grey challenge this constraint , but it is also clear that being good, or even excellent, is not enough.
Ironically, that is probably how those 12 editors felt about the original Harry Potter manuscript. Had things turned out only slightly different, the real Rowling might have met with the same success as the fake Robert Galbraith, not the other way around. Duncan J. You can manage them any time by clicking on the notification icon.
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