Thread: Harry Potter eBooks to be officially sold
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Old 07-20-2011, 06:22 PM   #136
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Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
In the news today. Google eBooks is going to be selling Harry Potter too.

Google Strikes Deal With J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore for Harry Potter Ebooks
http://mashable.com/2011/07/20/google-pottermore/
Google ebooks are not compatible with Kindles. They use ADE PDF or ePub. It'll be interesting to see if g'books is going to *also* sell the books, or they've gone back on their claim to make them available for all e-readers.

I'm still thinking they'll release watermarked PDFs as their "all devices" format. I'd be happy to see multiple formats, but I haven't seen anything that indicates they even remotely understand why that'd be good. I've seen a lot of chatter about "readable on any device"--but all devices currently sold support PDF. (At least, I think they do; it looks like the ebookwise is no longer available new.)
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