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Harry Potter and the Financial Web Back in the day of JakeRinard.com we ran a political story on Harry Potter that had huge success. It was debated on countless websites and the exchange was heated between thousands of people all over the web. It brought www.JakeRinard.com to the forefront of all blogs. With Harry Potter's TV debut coming up we thought we would bring up some money stats. In a time where churches and non profit organizations are hurting for money and less and less church members are tithing, let's look at how much money goes into the pockets of the people surrounding Harry Potter.
The author of Harry Potter J.K. Rowling was an impoverished Scottish author, not doing very well, who is now worth over $400 million, and has created something that runs in the billions of dollars. The movies have taken in over $2 billion dollars, the books have been translated into over 55 languages and more than 200 million copies have been sold. When the fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," was published in the summer of 2000, it sold 5.1 million copies during its first weekend in release. Which made it the falsest selling novel in history. Can you say cha - ching? In 1998 Rowling sold licensing rights for $500,000, which now proves to be just a drop in the bucket. She also earns between $1 and $1.50 for each Harry video game that is sold. Harry Potter has been a goldmine for countless people. It has been credited with saving Amazon.com bookstore, as well as other companies. The author went from rags to riches, while churches and other non profits eager to help people are starving for their members money. With Christians jumping on the bandwagon of Harry Potter we once again need to look into where our money is going. So often we hear people saying they can not afford to tithe to their church, yet are the first in line at the bookstore at Midnight to purchase the book for their children. I am not going to go into whether Harry is good or not for children, but I want to impress on you is to look into what you are spending your money on, and always try to give back a little to your church, it is a worthwhile investment.
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