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  Pottermore Sales Surpass £1 Million in 3 Days

  1238 readersBy Hannah Johnson So it looks like waiting to sell your e-books until your fans are in a frenzy to have them was a good strategy for the Harry Potter empire. JK Rowling decided not to grant the digital book rights to her publishers and instead sell the e-book versions through a dedicated Harry Potter website,

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  More Than $1.5 Million Worth of Harry Potter Ebooks Sold in 3 Days

  1148 readers Harry Potter fan site Pottermore sold more than $1.59 million worth of ebooks in the first three days after the books became available, Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne said on a Radio Litopia show, “The Naked Book.” The sales were “considerably higher than I expected,” said Redmayne. The ebooks, which cost $8 to $11.10 ($61.70 for the

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  OverDrive To Distribute Harry Potter eBooks At Libraries

  1534 readersThe new Harry Potter website Pottermore is not only releasing Harry Potter eBooks for sale. The company has partnered with OverDrive to make the books available for readers to borrow through libraries. The press release explains more: “Under the terms of the agreement, OverDrive, a leading global distributor of eBooks and digital audiobooks, will manage hosting and digital

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  Pottermore CEO discusses Amazon lending deal

  1382 readerspaidContent has talked to Charlie Redmayne, the CEO of Pottermore, about the deal Amazon announced to add the Harry Potter titles to the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, the program that lets Prime-subscribing Kindle owners check out one e-book per month for free. Redmayne admits that the deal may cannibalize some sales, but he believes it

• Harry Potter Says ‘Domo Arigato’

  573 readers For the first time, Harry Potter e-books will be available in Japanese: PRESS RELEASE: Harry Potter eBooks Available in Japanese at ‘Pottermore’ PR Newswire LONDON, July 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – The eBook editions of J.K. Rowling’s bestselling Harry Potter stories will be available for the first time in Japanese when the Pottermore Shop (Shop.Pottermore.com/ja_JP), the exclusive retailer of Harry Potter

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  paidContent 2012: Q&A with Charlie Redmayne

  1601 readersModerator, Laura Hazard Owen, Staff Writer, paidContent/GigaOM:   Charlie Redmayne, CEO, Pottermore: Pottermore came about from Rowling and her agent in order to give something back to fans.  Trying to create a digital future for Harry Potter.  First two parts in place.  Very expensive to run so created a commercial business as well to fund

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  Pottermore goes live – with some innovative changes to the ebook-selling model

  814 readers From FUTUReBOOK: … First, the Harry Potter brand still carries a great deal of muscle, but not enough to get Apple to change its terms. According to Charlie Redmayne, chief executive, the company has done some “groundbreaking deals” with Sony, Google, Amazon and Barnes & Noble, whereby the e-books will be featured on their sites, but the

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  DBW Weekly Roundup: The Pottermore Special Edition

  2532 readers By Yvette M. Chin, Editor, Digital Book World I’m sure you’ve noticed that J.K. Rowling released Pottermore this week, an online experience and ebookstore for her wildly successful Harry Potter books: How could you avoid the thousands and thousands of articles, from niche fan sites to mainstream media outlets, talking about the latest–and perhaps most controversial–addition

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  Pottermore (the Harry Potter ebook site) team up with Google Books

  2194 readersOne giant joins forces with another one….  Harry Potter and Google Books: In a press release, Google Books announced  that they will be joining forces with JK Rowling’s shortly to open Harry Potter website (Pottermore). Read more on Pottermore (the Harry Potter ebook site) team up with Google Books…

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  Google To Sell Harry Potter eBooks

  2224 readersWhen Harry Potter makes its way into the eBook format this fall via J.K. Rowling’s new site Pottermore, Google will help distribute the content. Inside Google Books explains: “Pottermore and Google are teaming up to integrate Pottermore with a number of Google products and APIs. So when the series of Harry Potter ebooks launches on Pottermore.com