Interactive Harry Potter website and digital bookstore Pottermore.com has a new CEO: Susan Jurevics, who was previously an SVP at Sony and led Sony’s partnership with Pottermore. Read more »
Virtual Harry Potter community and digital bookstore Pottermore.com is losing its CEO: Charlie Redmayne has been appointed CEO of HarperCollins U.K. So what does this mean for Pottermore? Read more »
Interactive Harry Potter site Pottermore.com has launched an offshoot business to work with other brands. Pottermore will also launch apps later this year. Read more »
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fan site Pottermore is launching on Sony’s PlayStation Home. Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne said the partnership provides the “most immersive experience possible within that space.” Read more »
RCS Libri, the second largest book publisher in Italy, has partnered with Italian train company NTV to make ebooks available for free to passengers. The ebooks can be read through devices… Read more »
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,… Read more »
With Pottermore.com now using watermarking instead of heavyweight DRM on all the Harry Potter e-books, anti-DRM arguments are growing louder. Now the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) hopes to create an… 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… Read more »