The Tales of Beedle the Bard
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JK Rowling's new book, "The Tales of Beedle the Bard", has become the fastest selling title of the year – and incredibly, the proceeds from the book are being donated to charity.
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A fantastic gesture.
The book is doing so well that more than 2.6 million copies have been sold in less than two weeks.
Wow! As a writer struggling to get my name in the public’s eye, I can’t get my head around figures like that. It's a fantastic gesture.
Since it’s release on December 4, "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" also became the top selling book of 2008 on both sides of the Atlantic, topping the USA Today and Daily Telegraph charts and raising 4.2 million pounds ($6.5 million) for charity – a mind boggling amount.
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JK Rowling
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I can only applaud her - JK Rowling, you’ve shot up in my estimation.
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Rowling, who is now the world's richest author, originally hand-wrote and illustrated seven copies of Beedle the Bard, six of which she gave away as gifts and one which she sold at auction in 2007, fetching $4 million for aid organizations.
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Earnings from the book, which has an international print run of eight million copies, will go to the Children's High Level Group (CHLG), a charity for vulnerable children in Eastern Europe co-founded by JK Rowling.
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JK - I raise my hat to you.
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