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Old 09-21-2011, 02:31 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by VydorScope View Post
You dont think she could write another series? She has the name now, so her books would get recognized pretty fast, as long as the content is reasonable she will sell extremely well.
She could, but the pressure would be tremendous.

Harry Potter became one of the defining series of the last twenty years. Anything and everything she would write from now on will invariably be compared to HP. It's not easy to strike gold twice; I highly doubt any other series she writes will achieve anywhere close to the level of success that HP did.

If Rowling wrote a series that sold, let's say, 5 million books... that would be a success by any other standard. By the standard set by HP, however, it would be considered a failure.

That's a pretty tough situation to overcome.
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