Once again Pottermania will sweep throughout the world when the next and final instalment of the young magician's adventures
goes on sale this July. Millions of fans will line up at stores or wait eagerly at home for their copy to arrive by mail. And once again, a few muggles will be left out. Neil Blair, an attorney with Rowling's publisher Christopher Little,
told Associated Press that the author has not allowed to release the Potter stories as e-books and also that she has no plans to do so.
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Rowling has cited two reasons over the years: concern about online piracy (which has never been a major problem for the Potter books), and the desire for readers to experience the books on paper. E-books, hyped as the future of publishing during the dot-com craze of the late 1990s, remain a tiny portion of the multibillion dollar (euro) industry.
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Dear Mrs. Rowling, with my utmost respect and admiration, a little slice from the magical world of Harry Potter would have been of great help to the e-book cause. So once again, it'll be up to a couple of
piracy collaborators to convert printed copies of your book into electronic format and to swap illegal download links on the Internet. Just because you can't conceive of book piracy doesn't mean it can't happen.
I wish people would understand that the old argument that no one likes reading on a computer or an electronic device has pretty much eroded (or else nobody would be reading this).