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__See also: __List of best-selling books __The popularity of the Harry Potter series has translated into substantial financial success for Rowling, her publishers, and other Harry Potter related license holders. This success has made Rowling the first and thus far only __billionaire __ author.[85 ] The books have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and have also given rise to the popular __film adaptations  __ produced by __Warner Bros. __, all of which have been successful in their own right with the first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, ranking number four on the __inflation-unadjusted list of all-time highest grossing films __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"> and the other four Harry Potter films each ranking in the top 20.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[86 ]<span class="wiki_link_ext">[3 ] The films have in turn spawned eight video games and have led to the licensing of more than 400 additional Harry Potter products (including an __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">iPod  __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);">) that have, as of 2005, made the Harry Potter brand worth an estimated __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">US$  __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);">4 billion and J. K. Rowling a US dollar billionaire,<span class="wiki_link_ext">[87 ] making her, by some reports, richer than __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Queen Elizabeth II  __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);">.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[88 ]<span class="wiki_link_ext">[89 ] However, Rowling has stated that this is false.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[90 ] __ __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);">The great demand for Harry Potter books motivated the __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">New York Times __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"> to create a separate bestseller list for children's literature in 2000, just before the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. By June 24, 2000, Rowling's novels had been on the list for 79 straight weeks; the first three novels were each on the hardcover bestseller list.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[91 ] On 12 April 2007, __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Barnes & Noble __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"> declared that Deathly Hallows has broken its __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">pre-order  __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"> record, with more than 500,000 copies pre-ordered through its site.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[92 ] For the release of Goblet of Fire, 9,000 __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">FedEx  __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"> trucks were used with no other purpose than to deliver the book.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[93 ] Together, Amazon.com and __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Barnes & Noble  __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"> pre-sold more than 700,000 copies of the book.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[93 ] In the United States, the book's initial printing run was 3.8 million copies.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[93 ] This record statistic was broken by __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix  __<span style="background-color: rgb(17, 167, 17);">, with 8.5 million, which was then shattered by Half-Blood Prince with 10.8 million copies.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[94 ] 6.9 million copies of Prince were sold in the U.S. within the first 24 hours of its release; in the United Kingdom more than two million copies were sold on the first day.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[95 ] The initial U.S. print run for Deathly Hallows was 12 million copies, and more than a million were pre-ordered through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[96 ] __