• We should now be fully online following an overnight outage. Apologies for any inconvenience, we do not expect there to be any further issues.

JK Rowling Makes More Than You

bacon333

Senior member
Mar 12, 2003
524
0
0
According to Forbes magazine, Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling earns a reported $230 a minute. Rowling is the only non-American to hit the top ten list of highest-earning celebrities. Hannah Clark of Forbes says:

While celebrities grab headlines, it is rarely actors who make money. If you want to keep making money in the long term, you need a winning franchise and J.K. Rowling is proof of that.

Rest of article:
Link
 

mobobuff

Lifer
Apr 5, 2004
11,099
1
81
She's already said she doesn't make that much. Although she did admit that she is enormously wealthy.
 

Queasy

Moderator<br>Console Gaming
Aug 24, 2001
31,796
2
0
this really shouldn't be surprising given the massive success of the Harry Potter books and films.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
100,341
17,913
126
I still don't get the facination behind Harry Potter... The books are not that good.
 

Rudee

Lifer
Apr 23, 2000
11,218
2
76
Never read a single book or watched a single movie. Have zero interest to do so.
 

zendari

Banned
May 27, 2005
6,558
0
0
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: Rudee
Never read a single book or watched a single movie. Have zero interest to do so.

Congratulations! I suppose now you want a :cookie: ?


:confused:

Pass the cookie to the guys who made the driveby video. At least 1 entertaining thing came out of this franchise.
 

toekramp

Diamond Member
Jun 30, 2001
8,426
2
0
How long until Emma Watson (Hermione Granger, from Harry Potter) turns eighteen?

1 year, 34 weeks, 4 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes, and 16 more seconds!
 

forfor

Senior member
Jul 7, 2006
390
0
0
Originally posted by: toekramp
How long until Emma Watson (Hermione Granger, from Harry Potter) turns eighteen?

1 year, 34 weeks, 4 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes, and 16 more seconds!

lol. i see a ban coming your way.
 

nageov3t

Lifer
Feb 18, 2004
42,808
83
91
Originally posted by: bacon333
JK Rowling Makes More Than You

of course she does ;)

JK Rowling is a world famous author and probably one of the best selling writers of our generation.

meanwhile, I'm just a server monkey :p
 

cKGunslinger

Lifer
Nov 29, 1999
16,408
57
91
Originally posted by: forfor
Originally posted by: toekramp
How long until Emma Watson (Hermione Granger, from Harry Potter) turns eighteen?

1 year, 34 weeks, 4 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes, and 16 more seconds!

lol. i see a ban coming your way.

Why? Speaking from experience?
 

JoeKing

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
10,641
1
81
Originally posted by: toekramp
How long until Emma Watson (Hermione Granger, from Harry Potter) turns eighteen?

1 year, 34 weeks, 4 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes, and 16 more seconds!

hmmm

 

CKent

Diamond Member
Aug 17, 2005
9,020
0
0
I'm just replying cause I heard there were :cookie:s in this thread. Mmmmmm.
 
Oct 20, 2005
10,978
44
91
I don't believe that she makes $230/min.

Let's say we take an avg. work day of 8 hours. That's over $110,000 in that day alone. In a 5 day work week, she makes just over $550,000. And as much as I know the whole harry potter is a huge franchise...I still can't see how they come up w/ $230/min.
 

mobobuff

Lifer
Apr 5, 2004
11,099
1
81
Originally posted by: Schfifty Five
I don't believe that she makes $230/min.

Let's say we take an avg. work day of 8 hours. That's over $110,000 in that day alone. In a 5 day work week, she makes just over $550,000. And as much as I know the whole harry potter is a huge franchise...I still can't see how they come up w/ $230/min.

I told you, she doesn't make that much. She said her accountant would laugh if he heard those figures.
 

mobobuff

Lifer
Apr 5, 2004
11,099
1
81
Originally posted by: LoKe
And to think that she was a poor single mother when she started writing the book in a diner.

She certainly has inspired a lot of young writers. Sadly none of them are that good.