Harry Potter: The Story of a Global Business Phenomenon by Susan Gunelius

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  • Pub. Date: August 2008
  • 216pp
  • Sales Rank: 453,350

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    • Pub. Date: August 2008
    • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
    • Format: Hardcover, 216pp
    • Sales Rank: 453,350

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    The Harry Potter books are some of the bestselling books of all time. In this fascinating study, Susan Gunelius analyzes every aspect of the brand phenomenon that is Harry Potter. Delving into price wars, box office revenue, and brand values, amongst other things, this is the story of the most incredible brand success there has ever been and is the perfect case study for academics, professionals and students alike.

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    SUSAN GUNELIUS is President & CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc. (KeySplashCreative.com), a full-service marketing communications provider.  With over 15 years of marketing experience, she spent over a decade of her career developing and executing marketing programs for some of the largest companies in the world, including divisions of AT&T and HSBC. Gunelius is the author of several business-related books, and her marketing articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Entrepeneur.com, MSNBC.com, WashingtonPost.com, FoxBusiness.com, and more. Susan also writes several business and marketing blogs, including her blog for women working in the field of business at WomenOnBusiness.com and her company blog at keysplashcreative.com/category/blog. 

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    April 12, 2009: I have a growing collection of Harry Potter analysis books and this is one that I heard about from the Azkatraz 2009 website which stated that the author would be giving a lecture off-site at that conference. I looked up the book and ordered it after some thinking.

    This book is good if you like to read about the entire Potter phenomenon - not just the books. So if you like analysis of the canon and Rowling's interviews, this book is not for you. Also, it is published by palgrave-macmillan and has the tone of a textbook (I can see it being used at the college level), and so passages are redundant to drive home points in a student's mind.

    Other than that, let me tell you some good thing about this book: it presents pretty up-to-date information on Harry Potter as a brand and its sales records. Instead of focusing on the actual releases of books, it looks at sales strategies: how the embargos worked, the release dates of movies/books/video games, Rowling as brand guardian, etc. However, this is just the latest information. For example, it only has the status of the Potter brand up through the fifth movie release and the Deathly Hallows book release. No doubt this will have to be expanded for a second edition after the release of all eight films based on the seven books and the Deathly Hallows paperback release, as well as the opening of the theme park. The theme park is mentioned, but at the moment it's still being built, so a lot of that information will be needed for another edition. Luckily that will make this book longer than it's 150 pages or so of actual text (there's a long bibliography).

    I don't know if you'd want to wait for a newer edition in 2011 after the opening of the park and the release of the last film, but who knows if there will be one. At the moment, hardcover is the only format, and so the book is pricey, but to those of us who just can't get enough of Potter, we know that some of these books are just going to be expensive and that's the way it is.

    As a couple of side notes: the author has a video up on youtube.com (just search "Susan Gunelius") in which she talks about this book, and the editing on this book is very well done.

    I Also Recommend: Harry, a History.