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Originally Posted by wodin
I remember standing in line at midnight on release night of one of the HP books (I forget which one) and being very disgruntled at Rawling's decision to not release them in e-book format. [Truncated].
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Rowling eventually recanted, and they are available as eBooks now. She had the notion that they were children's books, and kids needed paper volumes. She missed the fact that a good chunk of the market were grownups, not kids, and wouldn't have an issue dealing with eBooks. (For that matter, neither would the kids...)
I saw a set of Potter eBooks from well before Rowling decided to release eBook versions. Someone had laboriously scanned all of the books, run OCR on the scans to get text, proofread, then added the markup needed for a proper eBook. It was an enormous amount of work, and I was awestruck. I was pleased that Rowling finally decided to license official versions. It says a lot about Potter fandom that someone would make the effort to produce good eBook versions from scans of the hardcopy.
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Dennis