Sorry, count me out.
But I did take the opportunity to donate $16.95 purchase price to
Project Gutenberg and let Rowling's publisher,
Scholastic, Inc., know where the funds are going. Rowling herself has taken a firm stance against ebooks:
J.K. Rowling Refuses e-books for Potter
J.K. Rowling has not permitted any of the six Potter books to be released in electronic form, not even during the peak of the e-book craze a few years ago. Neil Blair, a lawyer with Rowling's literary agency, would only say that "this has not been an area that we have sought to license" and did not comment directly on whether pirated e-books, a common phenomena for Potter titles, were hurting sales.
Rowling Talks 'Potter' e-book Scam
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has updated her official web site with comments relating to the Harry Potter e-book scam that happened recently. She has also squashed a rumor about her home in Edinburgh as well as updating her Extra Stuff page with an item about owls.
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home Seven friendly suggestions for J.K. Rowling and her lawyer
Suggestion One: Try the technology as it exists today...Suggestion Two: Don’t just give away Potter books...Suggestion Three: Make legal Potter books available for sale...
Harry Potter Palmreader Ebook Petition
By signing this petition, you agree that the Author (J. K. Rowling) and / or the Publisher of Harry Potter books should consider selling these books in PalmReader eBook format... (925+ signatures)
Rowling: No e-book for Harry Potter VII
Sorry, e-book fans, whoever you are. You will be able to read the new Harry Potter on paper, listen to it, probably purchase it in Braille. But don't expect to download the text — at least legally...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 industry. The author herself writes in longhand, a preference that led to a rather amusing delay in Potter VII last April...\
Regards,
Matt