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JKR’s Novel for Adults Now Available for Preorder

Posted on Thursday, 12 April 2012, 12:21 | 4 Comments

From Amazon.com’s site:

Just Announced: The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling © Wall to Wall Media Ltd. Photographer: Andrew Montgomery

The creator of Harry Potter is back with her first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy. When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly, the empty seat he leaves on the town’s council becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the seemingly idyllic town of Pagford has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations?

Blackly comic and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy arrives September 27, 2012, but you can pre-order your copy of the Kindle book now.

 

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Pottermore Shop and British Editions

Posted on Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 19:59 | 2 Comments

If you live in the U.S. and want the U.K. editions of the Harry Potter eBooks, Our Mirror of Erised has a post describing how to obtain them. Look for the post I made on 29 March 2012.

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Pottermore Store Open

Posted on Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 11:54 | 1 Comment

PottermoreThe Pottermore Store is now open, selling English-language copies of the Harry Potter books. Other languages will be coming soon.

The good news: the books are pretty reasonably priced ($7.99 for the first one).

The bad news: if you live in the U.S., you can’t buy the original version but are forced to buy the U.S. language version.

For a lot of people, maybe most, that won’t matter, but I read them originally in  British English, the original, and I don’t want them in U.S. English. So my excitement about having them available, following many months of anticipation, was quickly turned to major disappointment. Since JKR owns the digital rights to her books, I don’t understand why she would keep people from buying them in the original just because they live in the U.S. It’s not like where different companies in different countries have the rights to them. Anyway, after this long wait, sadly I will not be buying the books in e-book format.

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JK Rowling reignites DRM debate (Wired UK)

Posted on Thursday, 13 October 2011, 16:43 | 5 Comments

An older article (23 June 2011), but an interesting one. The HP series will apparently not be DRM-protected, but will be watermarked. I like this. :-)

JK Rowling reignites DRM debate (Wired UK).

I plan to buy the series when it’s finally available on Pottermore (they’re saying early 2012 now, in order to be able to have their servers in shape to handle the heavy traffic).

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What is Harry Potter “canon”?

Posted on Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 16:14 | 4 Comments

The Pottermore conundrum for fanfic writers.

PottermoreNow that details are being revealed from the new Pottermore site and the new info that JKR is making available there, all kinds of previously held canon facts are being thrown into question. For example, Minerva McGonagall was always estimated as having been born in 1924 or 1925, and that she began teaching at Hogwarts in her early thirties. (This was based on a statement Rowling made in an early Scholastic.com interview, in which she said that McGonagall was a “sprightly 70,” presumably in the then-current book, Goblet of Fire, which took place in 1994-95. Subtract 70 from 1994 and you get 1924, and since her birthday is in October, Minerva would have been 70 for most of the 1994-95 school year if she were born in October 1924.)

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