Book burning results

[MondayYogurt]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/27/harry-potter-publisher-covid-bloomsbury-book-sales-lockdown

A key driver has been the consumer division, which includes the Harry Potter series. There was a more than fourfold increase in profits at the division, to £2.7m, as sales rose by 17%. The publisher said print sales of Harry Potter books grew by 8% from mid-July to the end of September.

Well you can’t burn a book you haven’t bought!

I'm lost.
am I missing something here about the book burning?

Maybe all those buyers have been getting in kindling ahead of the winter.

Great to see such a clear, real-world response to all the lies, abuse and hate.

Are they actual books? I think some people were suggesting it was more environmentally friendly to buy it on Kindle and then delete it .

I hadn't ever thought of punishing an author by giving them some royalties, but a lot of fanatics are a bit Strange.

Weaved? Don't they mean woven? Are journalists supposed to be professional writers?

Ha ha ha haaaa!

What a damp squib of a protest buying a book on kindle and deleting it would be. Hilarious

Excellent news. I think it demonstrates whose side the public is on in all this.

I think it demonstrates whose side the public is on in all this.

And that the actual, target audience for the books don’t give a crap about the whole “cancelling” hoo-haa. I’m reading the 5th book to my 8 & 9 yo at the moment, and they’re spellbound. They neither know nor care what JKR’s definition of a woman is. Neither do their peers who are ploughing their way through the books and dressing up as Harry / Hermione every Halloween and World Book Day. It’s simply not on their radar.

It’s a weird phenomenon that (some) millennials seem to think they somehow “own” the stories because they were the first generation to read the books and haven’t quite been able to let go. They’re children’s books for children! Nothing to stop adults reading them, but don’t project your confusion and anger that the author’s politics don’t align perfectly with yours onto the demographic that the books were written for.

There's truly no such thing as bad PR. All the threats and bile come to nothing, in fact they have shone a light like no other.

Excellent

I think some people were suggesting it was more environmentally friendly to buy it on Kindle and then delete it

That is utterly priceless. Protest & activism in 2020.

@TabbyStar

Are they actual books? I think some people were suggesting it was more environmentally friendly to buy it on Kindle and then delete it .

That's priceless - it makes me think that schools really need to have Adrian Mole as a set text!

Cy and I went to the circus.
Cy got hit with a rolling pin.
We got even with the gosh-darned circus,
Bought two tickets and didn't go in.