J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter community site and digital bookstore Pottermore.com now lets users gift ebooks and digital audiobooks to other people. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a collection of stories, is now also available as an ebook for the first time. Read more »
Random House UK announced that E.L. James’ erotic novel “50 Shades of Grey,” which started out as self-published Twilight fan fiction, is now the bestselling book of all time in the country — apparently beating out any single Harry Potter title. Read more »
When it comes to selling e-books, the Harry Potter franchise is far from conventional: Pottermore has been selling JK Rowling’s Harry Potter e-books without digital rights protection. Why? Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne answers that and more in a paidContent 2012 interview with Laura Hazard Owen. Read more »
“If you buy a digital book you should be able to read it on anything you want to read it on”, said Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne at paidContent 2012. Read more »
Pottermore has partnered with Kobo to make the Harry Potter e-books available on Kobo devices. Pottermore has similar arrangements with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony and Google (but not Apple yet). Read more »
Amazon will make all seven Harry Potter e-books available in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. “It’s a commercial deal that makes sense even with a level of cannibalization of sales,” Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne tells paidContent, “but I believe it will actually drive greater sales.” Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle home page and a Harry Potter owl promise “wizardry on the way.” Read more »
Harry Potter website Pottermore sold nearly $5 million worth of e-books in its first month — that works out to around 525,000 books — and has nearly 7 million unique users, CEO Charlie Redmayne says. Sales of the Harry Potter print books have increased, too. Read more »
Pottermore is now selling the Harry Potter e-books in French, Italian, German and Spanish, in addition to U.S. and UK English. Read more »
The Harry Potter e-books are priced at $7.99 each or $9.99 each. Assuming an average price of $9.13, that means around 164,000 copies were sold in the first three days. Read more »
It’s been a week since the Pottermore shop launched — making the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks available (legally) for the first time. One week in, how is Harry selling? Read more »
J. K. Rowling’s Pottermore shop, the exclusive source for Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks, launched yesterday, and some muggles… Read more »
Within hours of the Harry Potter series going on sale as e-books for the first time, the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle Store hit a wall: titles… Read more »
The Pottermore e-bookstore is open earlier than expected, with all the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks available (DRM-free) for… Read more »
The Harry Potter e-books, which will be released for the first time by Pottermore in April (after months of delays), are now appearing in th… Read more »
J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter-focused web community and e-bookstore, Pottermore.com, will finally launch to a general audience in April after… Read more »
J. K. Rowling’s Pottermore still has not officially launched, but the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks sold exclusively through t… Read more »
J. K. Rowling is writing a new book, for adults, but she’s not keeping the digital rights for herself as she did with the Harry Potter books… Read more »
Ahead of the release of the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks, J. K. Rowling’s Pottermore.com is running a survey on reading habit… Read more »
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has officially announced its new e-reader, the details of which leaked out earlier this week. It’s called the Reader WiFi a… Read more »
From flying letters to a 4,500-word discourse on wand woods, early access to J. K. Rowling’s move into the digital arena, Pottermore, reveal… Read more »
It’s the sixth day of the contest to get early access to Pottermore.com, J. K. Rowling’s exclusive, interactive Harry Potter e-bookstore, wh… Read more »
With at least 25 Pottermore beta accounts now for sale on eBay (NSDQ: EBAY), the site has posted a notice: Cut it out! Read more »
Harry Potter e-books site Pottermore.com officially launches in October, but a “Magical Quill” contest that grants one million winners acces… Read more »
Would you pay $12.99 for a Harry Potter book app? Probably, if you’re one of the people who helped shatter records for the midnight screenin… Read more »
This week, author J.K. Rowling unveiled Pottermore.com, the exclusive e-bookstore for the Harry Potter series. Check out Laura Hazard Owen’s… Read more »
Pottermore.com is great news for Harry Potter fans, who have not been able to read the series in digital form until now; for J. K. Rowling,… Read more »
After a suspenseful buildup, J. K. Rowling has announced that Pottermore.com will be an e-bookstore, exclusively selling Harry Potter e-book… Read more »
Thirteen years after the first Harry Potter book was published, J. K. Rowling is shaking up the publishing world again: Pottermore.com, the… Read more »
Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling’s PR representative, Mark Hutchinson, has confirmed to us that a Pottermore.com memo leaked to UK newspape… Read more »
Last week, J. K. Rowling led fans on an online scavenger hunt to a mysterious website, Pottermore.com, set to launch June 23. Fierce interne… Read more »
We wrote yesterday about Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s mysterious new (yet to be launched) website Pottermore–and the reasons it could… Read more »
Visit Pottermore.com and you’ll see a magenta homepage, two owls, a “coming soon,” and that’s it…oh, except it’s also launched by J.K. Row… Read more »
If one of the best measures against piracy is to make content more easily available in a legitimate format, then Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) ha… Read more »
The first 36 minutes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I suddenly popped up on Bittorrent sites Tuesday, just a few days before… Read more »
Sify.com: Indiagames, the sole distributor of the Harry Potter mobile content in India, has tied up with Reliance Infocomm to offer the mobi… Read more »
The novel that could and would undoubtedly be the biggest digital audiobook seller of all time, J.K. Rowling’s coming “Harry Potter and the… Read more »
