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Harry Potter Series
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Released: June 30, 1997
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Released: December 4, 2008 (to the public)
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Pottermore
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Beta Release: July, 2011
Public Release: April, 2012
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The Casual Vacancy
Status: Coming Soon
Released: September 27, 2012
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Scholars study literary merits of Harry Potter novels
More than 60 academics from across the world are gathering in Scotland to examine the literary merits of the Harry Potter novels. Scholars will discuss the JK Rowling books over the next two days, with 50 lectures on the boy wizard scheduled at the University of St Andrews. Topics include the role of paganism, British national identity and how death is dealt with in the book series. An anthology based on the conference is planned for publication in 2013.
The conference has been organised by Prof John Patrick Pazdziora from the University’s School of English and Father Micah Snell from the University’s Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA).
Prof Pazdziora said: “We can’t avoid the fact that Harry Potter is the main narrative experience of an entire generation – the children who literally grew up with Harry Potter. The Harry Potter novels are simply the most important and influential children’s books of the late-20th and early 21st Centuries.” He added: “For very many people, this is their first experience of literature, and of literary art. So they want to think about it, and analyse it, and talk about it.”
The keynote speaker for the event – which is entitled A Brand of Fictional Magic: Reading Harry Potter as Literature – is John Granger, author of The Deathly Hallows Lectures. Mr Granger said: “I take exception to the unexamined and misinformed assumption that the books are ‘light on literary merit’. Ms Rowling’s works are comic, certainly, but it’s a great mistake to think they’re simple or haphazard story-telling. Hogwarts, we’re told, is hidden somewhere in Scotland, the author lives here, too, and Ms Rowling’s mother was half Scot. It’s somehow appropriate and fitting that the first academic conference of any size be held at Scotland’s oldest university, St Andrews.”
Pottermore updated their twitter feed earlier today with the exciting news that the first book in the Potter series has been updated with new exclusive content from Jo… excerpts from various Hogwarts library books.
“You can now visit the library on Pottermore and read excerpts from selected books bit.ly/L5kOet” – Pottermore
Excerpts of textbooks that Jo has written come from the following:
‘A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration’ by Emeric Switch
‘Curses and Counter-Curses’ by Vindictus Viridian
‘One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi’ by Phyllida Spore
‘The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1)’ by Miranda Goshawk
‘The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection’ by Quentin Trimble
By going to Pottermore’s Chapter 14 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, “Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback”, you’ll be inside the Hogwarts library. However, to see the excerpts for yourself, you will gave to click about randomly to find each excerpt. Have fuuun :’D
The original manuscript of the first Harry Potter novel has gone on show in London for a new exhibition close to the station where the teenage wizard caught the Hogwart’s Express.The work, including a scene where the character catches a train from Platform 9 3/4 at King’s Cross Station in London, is part of an exhibition at the nearby British Library.
Also on show at the Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands exhibition is an original draft of John Lennon’s song In My Life which details a bus journey from his childhood home into Liverpool city centre and appeared on the 1965 Rubber Soul album. Other exhibits are a 14th-century copy of the poem Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, the original manuscript of The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and JRR Tolkien’s artwork for The Hobbit.
The exhibition, which opens today and runs until September 25, examines how English literature is influenced by the UK landscape and includes letters, maps, lyrics and drawings.
Jamie Andrews, head of English and drama at the library, said: “We are very excited to share the wealth of the country’s literature in the summer of 2012 and to explore how writers from William Blake to Angela Carter have helped shaped the nation’s understanding of our landscape and surroundings. Writing Britain celebrates the incredible collection of great literary works held at the British Library, spanning more than 1,000 years to the present day. These rare and unique collections will help give a fascinating and new insight into the creative thinking behind iconic British novels, poems, illustrations and more.” Source: here
Amazon said today it has signed a deal for the electronic books rights to all seven Harry Potter titles in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish for its Kindle lending library. The deal allows subscribers of the Amazon Prime service, which requires an annual subscription, to borrow the electronic versions of best-selling JK Rowling books. Amazon said it inked the exclusive license with J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore website to make the titles available to its customers via the Kindle e-reader. But the deal only allows for borrowing of the ebooks, with Pottermore remaining the only place to buy the electronic versions.
“We’re absolutely delighted to have reached this agreement with Pottermore. This is the kind of significant investment in the Kindle ecosystem that we’ll continue to make on behalf of Kindle owners,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive.
“Over a year, borrowing the Harry Potter books, plus a handful of additional titles, can alone be worth more than the $79 cost of Prime or a Kindle. The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library also has an innovative feature that’s of great benefit for popular titles like Harry Potter – unlimited supply of each title – you never get put on a waiting list.”
The Amazon lending library has now grown to over 145,000 books that can be borrowed for free as frequently as once a month, with no due dates. Books are borrowed to read on a Kindle device, and customers can have one book out at a time. When customers want to borrow a new book, any borrowed book can be returned from their device. Rowling laid down her pen – and Harry’s magic wand – when she finished the seventh and final Potter book in 2007, and since then the series has sold more than 450 million copies around the world in 74 languages. Source: Here
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has been honoured with the freedom of the City of London.
The author, who has sold more than 450 million copies of her books, was given the accolade in recognition of her services to children’s literature. Rowling was given the honour at the Mansion House in the City, where she was presented with a framed parchment certificate.
She said: “I am prouder than I can say to be given the freedom of the City.”
She joked that the honour entitled her to “a free pint in the Leaky Cauldron and a ten Galleon voucher to spend in Diagon Alley”
Work has started on a new research centre funded by a £10 million donation from Harry Potter author JK Rowling, with the facility now expected to be up and running by the autumn. The city writer donated the money towards the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic at Little France in memory of her mother. She died at the age of 45 after suffering from multiple sclerosis, one of the illnesses the facility hopes to tackle. Construction firm Mansell recently started work on the Edinburgh University building, which will form a key part of the research hub. It is hoped that the research unit will attract leading scientists and drug companies to the Capital from all over the world. Source: here
J.K. Rowling will receive the Freedom of the City of London at The Mansion House on Tuesday 8 May for services to children’s literature. The Harry Potter author, whose books have sold an estimated 450 million copies worldwide, has been nominated for the Freedom by Alderman David Wootton, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and Sheriff of London Wendy Mead. Her Freedom ceremony at The Mansion House, the Lord Mayor’s official residence, will begin with her reading aloud the Declaration of a Freeman, and end with her being greeted by Chris Bilsland, Chamberlain of London, as a ‘Citizen of London’ and the presentation of her framed parchment certificate.
Speaking before the ceremony, J.K. Rowling said:
“Both my parents were Londoners. They met on a train departing from King’s Cross Station in 1964, and while neither of them ever lived in London again, both their daughters headed straight for the capital the moment that they were independent. To me, London is packed with personal memories, but it has never lost the aura of excitement and mystery that it had during trips to see family as a child.
“I am prouder than I can say to be given the Freedom of the City, which, on top of all the known benefits (and few people realize this), entitles me to a free pint in The Leaky Cauldron and a ten Galleon voucher to spend in Diagon Alley.”
Little Brown has just put out a press release giving us the title of JK Rowling’s new book… The Casual Vacancy! A summary follows:
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.
The release goes on to state that the book will be available worlwide on September 27th, 2012! Tell us how excited you are in the comments!
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her new author website. Details on the site include information about Pottermore and her highly anticipated book for adults. Currently, we now know the title of her book to be The Casual Vacancy, and will be released on Thursday, September 27th.
Check out the website and all of the new information right here.
Over £1m-worth of Harry Potter ebooks have been sold in just three days, according to the chief executive of JK Rowling’s new digital venture Pottermore. Pottermore’s director Charlie Redmayne told Radio Litopia’s show “The Naked Book” that Harry Potter ebook sales have “surpassed anything we anticipated”, topping £1m in the three days following their launch on 27 March.
According to The Bookseller magazine, this means digital sales for Rowling’s series beat print sales for the books in the UK that week – and so far this year. The seven Harry Potter print books made £36,000 in bookshop sales the same week, according to Nielsen BookScan, with total spending on print editions of Potter this year at £588,000 to date.
“We had budgeted for a much lower figure, I had looked at the physical sales of the books, and tried to anticipate what proportion of sales would be digital, and that there was a certain amount of pent-up demand, but it surpassed anything we anticipated,” said Redmayne. The first three novels cost £4.99 in ebook form, the final four are priced at £6.99 in ebook and all seven can be purchased in a bundled digital edition for £38.64.
The sales of Rowling’s ebooks have now “settled down” but continue to exceed expectations. “It is still running at a much higher rate than I was anticipating, even for the launch. It is still surpassing anything I’ve ever seen for e-book sales,” said Redmayne. “Everything that Harry Potter does surpasses expectations. We had planned for something that we just couldn’t anticipate.”
The majority of Harry Potter’s new digital readers, estimated The Bookseller’s editor Neill Denny, are likely to be those who are already fans of the books. “Maybe 50% of these sales will come from the ex-reader market,” estimated Denny. “Grown-up fans, who would have loved Potter as a child, read the books five or ten or 15 years ago, but maybe do not own copies of all the books in print. They’ll have Kindles or other ereaders, have seen the books are online and will have thought they’ll buy the books to dip into.”
Denny believes around a fifth of sales will have come from the curious, with another fifth from younger readers who are just entering the “Potter age band”, and who have ereaders of their own, or access to ereaders.
And a small proportion of readers, he predicted, will have plumped for a digital edition of the Harry Potter titles to prevent the embarrassment of being seen reading a children’s book in public.
The one thing that has not yet exceeded expectations is the launch of Pottermore’s interactive zone, which was last week promised for “early April”. Any fans hoping for an Easter walking with wizards before dropping in to shop are likely to be disappointed. “There’s nothing to tell you quite yet,” said a spokesman. Source: here
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