A publishing company owned by JK Rowling made £18m last year
In 2022, JK Rowling received £18 million from her publishing company.
‘Harry Potter’ creator 57-year-old J.K. Rowling received the windfall as a dividend on Pottermore shares.
During the financial year ending March 2022, Pottermore, JK’s digital publishing firm, made a pre-tax profit of £5.7 million on a turnover of £37.8 million.
According to JK, any attempts to “cancel” her over her views have led to an increase in her book sales.
HarperCollins is set to phase out remaining copies of David Walliams’s books after announcing last year that they would no longer publish him. The book publisher said last year that it had dropped the children’s author following reports that he was accused of behaving inappropriately towards young women. Walliams strongly denies any claims and said […]
One of the most talked about literary releases of the year, is “Life of M”, the new novel by critically acclaimed and award-winning British author Rachel Cusk. Known for her novels “The Lucky Ones”, the Outline Trilogy (“Outline”, “Transit” and “Kudos”), “Second Place”, as well as the Goldsmiths Prize-winning book “Parade”, Cusk’s name isn’t one […]
German publisher Carlsen Verlag, supported by the German Bonnier publishing group, has taken legal action against OpenAI Ireland Ltd., joining author Marc-Uwe Kling and illustrator Astrid Henn in a case filed before the Munich Regional Court. Submitted on August 19, 2026, the lawsuit centres on the bestselling children’s series Das NEINhorn, whose creators and publisher […]
We tend to imagine that some of our favourite books were written in some secluded and exclusive locations that served as the inspiration for some of literature biggest masterpieces, but in reality most of these locations are more mundane than any reader could have...
One of the most talked about literary releases of the year, is "Life of M", the new novel by critically acclaimed and award-winning British author Rachel Cusk. Known for her novels "The Lucky Ones", the Outline Trilogy ("Outline", "Transit" and "Kudos"), "Second...
German publisher Carlsen Verlag, supported by the German Bonnier publishing group, has taken legal action against OpenAI Ireland Ltd., joining author Marc-Uwe Kling and illustrator Astrid Henn in a case filed before the Munich Regional Court. Submitted on August 19,...