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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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What is Harry Potter “canon”?

Posted on Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 16:14 | 6 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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Aside

Yeah, I’d been drooling over Kindles. Now I have even more reason to want one: Google Books and Kindle to get ‘Harry Potter’ series | Signal Strength – CNET News. How cool would it be to have all the books … Continue reading →

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Posted on Friday, 22 July 2011, 19:03

Another view of Pottermore

Posted on Friday, 24 June 2011, 9:59 | Leave a comment

A take on previous speculations

Hopes and Laments

PottermoreEveryone seemed to be speculating about what Pottermore was going to be — and there’s still some room for speculation, since until the site is actually launched, we won’t really know what the site will look like and what it will offer its visitors and members. Continue reading →

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And More Pottermore

Posted on Friday, 24 June 2011, 7:43 | Leave a comment

An interview with J.K. Rowling

In an interview with the BBC, Rowling discusses her new Website, the pressures of writing Harry Potter, and her decision to begin selling the Harry Potter series as ebooks. You can see the interview, with the video, over on BBC News, Entertainment & Arts.

More on Pottermore:

More Potter: Pottermore First Impressions

JKR’s Video Statement on Pottermore

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