News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Banned Books Week starts Sunday, and bannedbooksweek.org has ideas and resources. Also, scroll down for a bunch of banned books lists. The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip,… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News September is Libary Card Sign-Up Month (ALA) Tennessee mom calls Henrietta Lacks book “pornographic”; seeks to have it banned from school. (LA Times) Just in time for… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: The Amazon-Hachette dispute continues to escalate. Here’s a slightly pro-Amazon take (GigaOm) and a… Read more »
Rita Skeeter covers the appearance of Harry Potter and other DA members at the Quidditch World Cup. Writing for the Daily Prophet with her usual mix of sensationalism and snide innuendo, Skeeter uses Potter, Weasley, and Granger’s attendance at the World Cup to pass along news and gossip about the… Read more »
Now that my work project is completed, I’ve had a little time to get onto Pottermore and play. My overall reaction is one of mild disappointment oddly coupled with mild enthusiasm. The additional material is interesting (for instance, the backstories of Vernon and Petunia Dursley and Prof. McGonagall, respectively), and… Read more »
OK, I’m cheating slightly here, since a few of these appeared toward the end of last week. But here are a number of articles I found interesting this week: Want to create your own ebook using MS Word? PC World tells you how.. It’s caveat emptor at Amazon, where copycat… Read more »
The Pottermore Insider announced that Pottermore is finally open to everyone. Queue nicely, one at a time, please! The announcement generated great excitement on the Harry Potter Lovers forum over at Ravelry, the knitting and crocheting community I belong to. There were also some complaints about the sign-up process, but… Read more »
The Harry Potter ebooks have finally gone on sale at the Pottermore shop!!! US prices are $7.99 each for the first three books, $9.99 for the remaining four, or $57.99 for the entire set. That’s in line with the paperback prices. The books are currently available only in English, but… Read more »
J. K. Rowling at the Pottermore announcement event Pottermore, the official interactive website for Harry Potter fans, will finally open its virtual doors to the public in early April, according to the Pottermore Insider blog. (No specific date has been announced.) Pottermore has been in beta testing since September with… Read more »
J. K. Rowling has announced a new website, which will officially open in October. It will offer interactive online versions of the books, beginning with the first book (including Sorting Hat questions and a Wand Chooser.) The second book will be added to the site in 2012. In addition, the… Read more »
