J. K. Rowling Named Worlds Best-Paid Author

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Friday, October 3, 2008, 16:50

J.K. Rowling has topped the list of the World's Best Paid Authors, with an earning of three million pounds a week. The author earns as much as nine of the best-selling authors put together, and she has been able to make much of the profit from the 375 million Harry Potter books that have been sold.

Rowling also gets an undisclosed cut from the profit made out of the Potter films, and earns an estimated 100million pounds from toy merchandise. Besides these, she makes profit from the video games and the Potter images that appear on everything from sticking plasters to sweets.

On October 2, Forbes named Rowling as one of the true "magic stories" of publishing.

"On the big screen, her Potter franchise has already generated 2.1billion pounds at the worldwide box office — and she still has three flicks to come," the Sun quoted Lacey Rose, a spokeswoman, as saying.

"I know I'm the luckiest woman in the world. I am immensely privileged," she said.

J. K. Rowling is a British author, best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series. Rowling, believed to be worth 560million pounds, is very humble about her status.