11/26/2022 0 Comments Harry potter movies hindiThe entire Hindi market was felt to be extremely price-sensitive and unlikely to pay anything like the prices for English books. That first title launched by Advani, then deputy prime minister, startled the Hindi publishing business not just for such a high-profile launch in the small category of children’s books, but also for its price point – Rs 165, which was unimaginably high for a Hindi children’s book. Harry Potter also shook up the Hindi publishing business. The Harry Potter books have been credited with reinventing the market for children’s fiction and fantasy novels, giving a much-needed boost to bookstores, which hosted the famous midnight rollouts and, also ecommerce, where Amazon early on grasped how big the phenomenon would be, and sold the books at a controversial, loss-making discount, in the hope that ordering the books would hook people onto online shopping. There was global celebration of the huge success of the books, which have created an empire of books, films, websites, plays, a theme park and merchandise that shows no signs of coming to an end. This week, the original series celebrated the launch of the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 20 years ago. This was, of course, Harry Potter Aur Paras Patthar, the first volume of the Hindi version of the Harry Potter series written by JK Rowling. Yet one launch might stand out, of a book released on November 14, 2003, about a boy who had faced a terrible attack that killed his parents and yet, magically, he lived… MUMBAI: As a seasoned politician, LK Advani has presided over very many book launches - academic treatises, commemorative volumes, political memoirs, policy reviews and so much more.
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