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View Poll Results: Will JK Rowling eventually cave and allow ebooks of the Harry Potter series? | |||
Yes, eventually | 116 | 65.17% | |
No, never | 44 | 24.72% | |
Other | 18 | 10.11% | |
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03-22-2010, 11:05 AM | #31 |
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03-22-2010, 11:25 AM | #32 |
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I don't care either way
For me there are always new and interesting ebooks to catch my interest, and a boatload of classics and public domain stuff to keep me busy for several lifetimes. Harry Potter is in no way a must-have series, they were fine to read one time (free from the library) but why sweat it? If or when they are available in ebook format and I am still in the mood, I would STILL wait for a bargain basement sale or 100% micropay at fictionwise or similar.
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03-22-2010, 11:48 AM | #34 |
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With any popular books, you can be pretty well assured that they have gone through multiple versions and multiple people making corrections to and republishing the material. That's why some random stranger on the street told me that if I did ever decide to look at books like that (not that I would) you would find them with revision numbers like v1.1, v1.2, v1.3, etc. as people made tweaks to them.
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03-22-2010, 11:59 AM | #35 |
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03-22-2010, 12:32 PM | #36 |
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Well, I found some html of the english version, first thing I opened in sigil.
I'll glally pay the day the officals e-books comes around, until then... |
03-22-2010, 12:38 PM | #37 |
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03-22-2010, 04:33 PM | #38 | |
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Given that, and the fact that she has tons of money she's already made off of this franchise, probably means that she doesn't care if she's losing any money by not selling eBooks. I don't expect her stance to change any time soon. |
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03-22-2010, 04:38 PM | #39 |
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03-22-2010, 04:42 PM | #40 |
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They were probably re-distributing them. Theoretically, if you download without re-sharing, these "snooper agencies" will never know.
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03-22-2010, 04:44 PM | #41 |
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03-22-2010, 04:49 PM | #42 |
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People who start out with next to nothing sometimes never feel really secure, no matter how much they have later. If that's the case, there's always a chance that her attitude toward ebooks will change when the HP books are no longer raking it in hand over fist, especially if any subsequent books of hers don't meet with the same success. But I've already read the HP series, so it's hard for me to care much either.
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Didn't she donate 100% of the proceeds of The Tales of Beedle the Bard to charity. BOb |
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03-22-2010, 10:14 PM | #45 |
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Her opinion of ebooks has been made clear many times (I believe she even wrote most if not all the books with pen and paper?), so the Luddite claim is probably valid too.
Having said that, I think she'll give in eventually, if only to continue her revenue stream as ebooks claim larger and larger shares of the market. In the meantime, there's plenty of VERY good fan fiction out there set in the HP universe. Some is a lot better than JKR's writing, in my opinion. |
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