Will the early success of Harry Potter’s final book come crashing down on booksellers as well as book publisher Scholastic? The publisher has only printed out 14 million books — less than half of the copies that are out there of the first book — but with no more books to spur sales of older titles, some are starting to believe that retailers will hit them up with returns. I look into why that is unlikely in Potter Pooper.

It was a wacky day yesterday. Associated Press and Forbes each reported that Netflix was lowering the price of its most popular plan (unlimited rentals with 3-out at any time) from $16.99 to $15.99. It’s odd since the company had just lowered its price this summer from $17.99. Well, AP corrected itself. It was just being offered to “a small fraction” of its 6.7 million members. I explore how Netflix blew it — angering anyone who isn’t part of that “small fraction” — in today’s Netflix Nearly Dodges a Bullet.

I just concluded an online chat for HispanicBusiness.com today. The magazine hadn’t hosted a live chat in nearly two years and I was up to the challenge. It went well. I wasn’t sure about what the turnout would be yet there were several questions submitted before the chat started — and about a half-dozen more that trickled in during the event.  From market volatility to real estate investing to estate planning, we covered a lot of ground in those 60 minutes. The transcript is here.

This week’s suspension of The Opie and Anthony Show at XM has stirred up a lot of chatter. I’m not here to be the moral police. It’s not the questionable on-air remarks that trouble me.  What does surprise me is that satellite radio behaved too much like terrestrial radio in reprimanding the on-air talent on an explicit language station. Yesterday I covered an intriguing aspect to the story — how advertisers like Nashville Coffee and Adam & Eve are leaving XM as a result of the censoring. Yes, sponsors fleeing forced CBS to boot Imus. Does that mean that sponsors fleeing will bring O&A back to XM soon? I weigh the heavy implications in Another Shoe Drops at XM.

One of the great things of financial journalism is that you often have a chance to take a mainstream story and give it an Wall Street spin. Don Imus has been suspended for two weeks at CBS — and MSNBC just went on to can his simulcast forever tonight — so what is there to write about? I took it to the next logical step. Imus will find his way on to either XM or Sirius Satellite Radio. It’s only a matter of time, so I wrote about it and its implications.