The popularity of Potter once led to the
NY Times creating a child best selling list so adult authors didn't have to compete with Rowling. Now Mary Ailes is
campaigning to return the HP books to the adult best sellers list.
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Up until 2000, Rowling's first three releases dominated top positions on their Best-Seller List for almost 100 weeks. Apparently due to pressure from the industry, the Times created a separate children's list where Rowling's record- breaking books were moved -- a decision which Ailes says was flawed.
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"The richness and complexity of Rowling's series, the depth of social satire, and the intricacies of the literary and mythic references, demand that this phenomenally-selling series be treated with the respect due of the adult list."
Mary Ailes wrote an essay entitled "Iceberg Ahoy! Why the Harry Potter Books Should be Restored to the New York Times Best-Seller List," for '
The Plot Thickens' - a great analytic HP book which we
reviewed.
To voice your opinion online about the matter of moving the books back to the Adult Best Seller List, please visit
Free Harry.
Source:
HPANA 
HP return to NY Times Adult Best Seller List? 
