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Electronic Arts is delaying the release of its Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game until next summer so that it will coincide with the release of the film, which has also been postponed. Shares of the game maker dropped by about 1 percent to $45.94 in after-hours trading on Monday. Last month, Warner Bros. said that the release date for the sixth film in the series would be put off from November to summer 2009 because of after-effects of the writer’s strike. (It said that ... read more

A U.S. judge on Monday halted publication of an unofficial encyclopaedic companion to the popular Harry Potter book series in a copyright case author JK Rowling argued would threaten other writers. Judge Robert Patterson in U.S. District Court in Manhattan wrote in his opinion that an independent U.S. book publisher, RDR Books, “had failed to establish an affirmative defence of fair use” and that publication of “The Harry Potter Lexicon” should not proceed. The ruling ... read more

Warner Bros’ lawsuit against Mumbai-based banner Mirchi Movies for its upcoming film “Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors” was heard this week in the Delhi High Court. In its deposition Friday, Mirchi Movies’ legal counsel claimed there was no copyright infringement evident in “Hari Puttar” as Warner Bros, maker of the “Harry Potter” film series, claims in its case presented by New Delhi-based counsel Anand & Anand. Well-known Indian politician and ... read more

An Australian woman who wrote a fantasy novel as a gift for her nine-year-old daughter could soon be joining the literary ranks of authors such as JK Rowling and CS Lewis. Avtar Kaur, 49, has written a children’s fantasy book called The Moon Mermaids. Now, literary agents are knocking on Ms Kaur’s door to acquire the intellectual property and publish it. The process has happened suddenly for Ms Kaur, who this week said she was coming to terms with her pending fame – and possible ... read more

Harry Potter author JK Rowling announced on Thursday that she will publish a book of wizarding fairy tales in December and donate an expected $8 million in proceeds to her charity for vulnerable children. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which will be published on December 4, is mentioned in the seventh and final Potter book as having been left to Harry’s friend Hermione Granger by Professor Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of their school Hogwarts. She gave six copies to people closely ... read more

Bloomsbury has announced a 38 per cent increase in profits and is positive that new releases can help it sustain growth in the second half. Following last June’s publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the cash reserves leapt to £55m, up from £13m in the first half of 2007. Revenue in the children’s division dropped by 53%, attributed to a strong 2007 comparative that included the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but there was a solid performance ... read more

A singed, first edition Harry Potter by JK Rowling will be the star prize in a charity auction in Perth next week. Perth and Kinross Association of Voluntary Service, which is currently making the finishing preparations for its Touch of Tartan charity ball on August the 29th, is inviting bids for the rare copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, worth over £500. The event will be held in Perth’s Salutation Hotel and will include a civic reception hosted by Perth and Kinross ... read more

Enid Blyton has been named the United Kingdom’s best-loved writer, beating Harry Potter creator JK Rowling into third place and leaving literary giants such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens trailing. Blyton, creator of the Famous Five books as well as the Secret Seven, Malory Towers and Noddy, topped a poll of 2,000 adults for the 2008 Costa Book Awards. There was an extremely strong showing for fantasy authors, with Roald Dahl, JRR Tolkien and Stephen King all making the ... read more

The release of the new Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has been delayed until the summer of 2009. The movie was originally set for release this November and will mean a two-year break between the movie adaptations of books five and six in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasy series. The sixth instalment of the teenage wizard’s adventures was intended to have its Royal premiere on November the 17th. The Hollywood writers’ strike has been blamed for the delay. ... read more

The Bromsgrove Standard recently ran a story on a local boy with a rare allergy to daylight. Fantasy writer JK Rowling sent him the entire signed set of Harry Potter books so that they can be auctioned for the charity, which supports him and others with the same condition. David Jones, who will be nine year’s old next month, is a massive Harry Potter fan and he received the box set after his mum Kate wrote to JK Rowling to tell her about David and the Xeroderma Pigmentosum that he ... read more