Pottermania ?

[AlexGrama]

Originally Posted by Sil_liS

Harry Potter ebooks were supposed to finally go for sale ... soon. The initial idea was that they would be available for sale when the new Sony readers were coming. Then only the first book was going to be for sale initially, then it was moved to Q1 2012, then people got distracted with Xmas so there was no news.

Got it. Thank you.

[HoopyFrood]

Sounds like greed is rearing its ugly head. My gosh, how much money does she need? She could afford to give away the damn things by now.

But truth be told, I never read the last couple, and really didn't think much of any of them for adult reading. Okay for kids...I guess.

[AlexGrama]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

Sounds like greed is rearing its ugly head. My gosh, how much money does she need? She could afford to give away the damn things by now.

But truth be told, I never read the last couple, and really didn't think much of any of them for adult reading. Okay for kids...I guess.

I must disagree with you. It's an universal reading and I believe it will stay on the right track for many many years as a classic. But, of course, I'm subjective.

As to the topic. Rowling should have published them online already. Greedy little princess.

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by AlexGrama

I must disagree with you. It's an universal reading and I believe it will stay on the right track for many many years as a classic. But, of course, I'm subjective.

As to the topic. Rowling should have published them online already. Greedy little princess.

You are not the only grown up that likes the books. The dumbest thing was the adult-version of the books with the exact same words in it, but with a non-kid cover.

Another reason why no ebooks yet could be the hope of future pbook sales once the book gets worn or lost. An ebook never degrades in quality no matter how often you read it. Seriously there is no excuse for lack of ebooks since a lot of those would get bought by people that already have the pbooks. Easy money for charging twice - if they could be bought.

[AlexGrama]

Alright, I got that but we deflected from the subject. Why haven't the books been published? :-?

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by AlexGrama

I must disagree with you. It's an universal reading and I believe it will stay on the right track for many many years as a classic. But, of course, I'm subjective.

As to the topic. Rowling should have published them online already. Greedy little princess.

Nah. Rowling hits me more as being a control freak than greedy.

[AlexGrama]

Never thought of that but I think "control freak" is closer to her attitude towards ebooks than greedy. (OMG, my cat just farted)

[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

Sounds like greed is rearing its ugly head. My gosh, how much money does she need? She could afford to give away the damn things by now.

She does give money away to charity.

Originally Posted by AlexGrama

Alright, I got that but we deflected from the subject. Why haven't the books been published? :-?

Control. She wanted to be the only one to sell them, she wanted all the books to be displayed the same way. The problem is that with ebooks the reader gets control. We can choose the font, the size of the words as well as the size of the display.

[AlexGrama]

It would be ironic if she owns an e-book reader.

[ProfCrash]

She does. She uses a Kindle. She has discussed it in interviews.

[AlexGrama]

And she's still against e-books? How about that.

[ProfCrash]

No, she is against selling her books as e-books. Other e-books apparently are fine.

And this is why I have no problem having her books on my Kindle. When she gets off her butt and sells them I will buy them.

[QuantumIguana]

I'm not sure she does realize the boat has sailed. She's not preventing piracy by not releasing her books as e-books, she is only losing sales. But she makes so much money, that I suppose she can afford to lose sales to indulge in a fantasy that by not selling her books as e-books she is somehow keeping control over how her books are read.

[AlexGrama]

And, ironically, Harry Potter e-books are rolling all over the internet. Just sayin.

[ProfCrash]

Originally Posted by QuantumIguana

I'm not sure she does realize the boat has sailed. She's not preventing piracy by not releasing her books as e-books, she is only losing sales. But she makes so much money, that I suppose she can afford to lose sales to indulge in a fantasy that by not selling her books as e-books she is somehow keeping control over how her books are read.

A part of me thinks that she is not concerned about money. She really has no reason to be concerned about money, she has a ton of it. I do think that she is concerned about piracy and what that means for her trademark work. The way she has handled all of this makes me wonder if she really is concerned about piracy because she has done everything humanly possible to delay the release of the e-books and it has been made very clear that these are her decisions.

At least with Anne Rice and many other big authors we knew that they wanted their books out as e-books but there were problems with the Publishers. This is the exact oppisite. Her Publisher has to being crazy knowing how much money they are losing but JKR does not seem motivated enough to care.

It is kind of strange.