July 11, 2007

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Ringworld by Larry Niven

wfzimmerman's review: "This has to be part of any sf collection. Rereading it recently I was most struck by two passages ... the famous one with Nessus explaining how lucky humans have been, and the one at the end where Louis Wu sees stars through the bottom of Fist-of-God. Looks like first editions go for about $5000 US as of 2007..."
Del Rey (1985), Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages

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Harry Potter $tatistics

Potter Effect Is Entertainment Magic - 7/11/2007 5:48:00 AM - Publishers Weekly

Harry Potter is an entertainment industry juggernaut. Every segment of the biz—from book publishing to movies to music—will tell you so. But now we can get a glimpse of all those figures in one place. The Nielsen Company has produced a report that provides a snapshot of the boy wizard’s deep reach into a broad range of entertainment segments via the usage and trend data that the company tracks as its core business.

Numbers on book sales, movie revenue, ad spending, and more.

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