J.K. Rowling created seven handwritten, leather-bound copies of a book called The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Six were given to close friends, and the last was sold to Amazon.com for about $4 million.
J.K. Rowling, eBay India Mix It Up
J.K. Rowling has made millions of readers happy, but she’s also made eBay India kinda mad. Hurt, actually, in a sort of whiny-little-kid-with-a-lawyer sense. The company objects to the way in which Rowling portrayed a court case.