Why Harry Potter Won't be a Bestseller

Wanna make some easy money? Tell your friends you don't think Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will debut at #1 on The New York Times Bestseller List. Heck, you don't think it will even make the Top Ten! Then give them ten to one odds.

Huh? The book that will probably set a single day and one week sales record, the book hundreds of thousands will line up for at midnight won't be the Number One book on The New York Times Bestseller list? That's right because Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a children's book and those books don't count.

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Imagine if Variety decided animated movies were just for kids and didn't belong on the box office Top Ten list, when more adult films like Knocked Up and Ocean's 13 needed the space.



Imagine if Billboard decided to banish country music to Nashville and reserve its list of Top Ten album for "real" music like pop, rock and hip hop.

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Fight the even greater injustice that keeps the book off the most
important bestseller list in the country. Tell them to "Free Harry
Potter!" Tell them to "Stop Turning The New York Times Bestseller List Into A Joke!" Tell them to make the bestseller list actually reflect the best sellers. Anything else is a lie.