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Although she provides content for her web site, it's administered by lightmaker.com, who are professional web developers (with quite an impressive portfolio). Interestingly, it's a site designed to allow for accessibility through a text-only version, but is primarily accessed through a flash-based puzzle format. (I think it was usability expert Jakob Nielsen who once commented that the navigation of your site was no place to experiment with artistic puzzles the user would have to work to figure out-- unless you were creating a website about the mysterious adventures of a boy wizard.)
Perhaps she's just never seen a good ebook reading device. The piracy concern is just silly, at this point. As others have pointed out, the digital version is available within 24 hours anyway, and Potter fans are well enough organized that anyone who wants a copy should have no trouble finding one.
I don't think it's really about the money, though. She's -- how does the expression go-- "richer than the Queen," after all. Probably someone needs to make the point with her that eBooks are more accessible to those with vision challenges (who might not want to hear the book read aloud in someone else's voice), as well as less expensive to distribute to low-income kids in third-world rural areas, or at least they will be once the OLPC project gets going. She seems to respond to charitable appeals as well as anything.
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