Harry Potter’s US publication made it a bonafide phenomenon Here’s a look back at the way Harry Potter changed and influenced online fandom, millennial culture, and the publishing industry. And it introduced an entire generation to the idea that it’s possible to interact with the pop culture you love - to write about it and with it, to make music and art about it, and to build a business around it. It changed the business model for publishing books for kids.
Harry Potter made YA book-to-movie franchises into one of the biggest forces in pop culture. Rowling was an unknown single mom when she first got the idea for her story while stuck on a train the small UK children’s press that ultimately took a chance on it undoubtedly couldn’t have predicted that it would have a measurable effect on everything it touched. But Harry Potter changed the world.Īuthor J.K.
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Harry Potter has since became such an all-encompassing phenomenon that from this vantage point, it’s hard to see the full scope what it accomplished: It feels as though publishing and fandom and children’s literature and all of pop culture have always been the way we know them today. Almost exactly 20 years ago, on September 1, 1998, Scholastic published Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first US edition of the UK’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
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