Small Mistakes That Cost Millions To Fix

Published on October 2, 2019 By Chloe Draws

Publishers turned down Harry Potter – $7.7 billion

Believe it or not but J.K Rowling had a hard time selling Harry Potter to book publishers when she was an unknown author. Of course, the books and franchise became a billion dollar business and those publishers missed out on a goldmine.

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When J.K found the rejection letters, she published them to Twitter, they said ““I regret that we have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we could not publish [Harry Potter] with commercial success.” Who has the last laugh now?