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Originally Posted by HarryT
The point is, though, that she HAD to self-publish in order to get "noticed" by a publisher.
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Did she 'have' to? I doubt it. Publishers generally don't look favorably upon self-published titles. I'm not an expert on Rowling, but in all the stories I have read about her road to success, this is the first I'm hearing about the 200 copies. (Thanks for that info, by the way.) I don't doubt that it's true, but I haven't heard that those copies were what got her noticed.
Here, for example, is an excerpt from her Wikipedia page:
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The decision to publish Rowling's book apparently owes much to Alice Newton, the eight-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury’s chairman, who was given the first chapter to review by her father and immediately demanded the next.
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That information itself is taken from
an article that appeared in
The New Zealand Herald shortly before the release of
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The chapter in question was given to the chairman as a sample by Rowling's agent, Christopher Little.