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Old 03-01-2012, 07:14 PM   #91
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I'm glad someone still sees values in libraries, something other than lost sales.
It's been reported that Rowling will be donating all proceeds of ebook sales to charity. I reckon giving libraries access is also a form of charity.
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Old 03-01-2012, 07:32 PM   #92
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It's been reported that Rowling will be donating all proceeds of ebook sales to charity. I reckon giving libraries access is also a form of charity.

Where? I follow this closely & the Potter fansites, podcasts etc and have never once heard this from her or reps. I've read people here on MR say it but never anywhere else. Where have you heard this 'reported'?
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Old 03-01-2012, 07:39 PM   #93
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Where? I follow this closely & the Potter fansites, podcasts etc and have never once heard this from her or reps. I've read people here on MR say it but never anywhere else. Where have you heard this 'reported'?
Just read it on MR. No idea what the source is nor am I aware of its validity.
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Old 03-01-2012, 07:49 PM   #94
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Don't know if this is posted elsewhere, but I just put all 7 of the Harry Potter books on hold in my library. Says they will be available April 30. I am number 4 or 5 in my library for the holds. Figure I'll grab whichever comes available first, then see how soon the others follow. I've read them all before, after all!

I assume other libraries have them now as well?
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Old 03-01-2012, 07:51 PM   #95
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My library appears to have bought 28 copies of each of them. About 25 still available.

My son just put 4 on hold. He should be getting them the week they come out. As an ethical parent, I would never use my son's card to obtain for myself more than the allowed number of holds at the library unless he wasn't using it for ebooks
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This may be the source of the rumor:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_882754.html

Rowling has suggested that she might make some other Harry Potter related book that might have the proceeds donated to charity. That's a lot of 'mights'.
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Old 03-01-2012, 08:44 PM   #97
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My library appears to have bought 28 copies of each of them. About 25 still available.

My son just put 4 on hold. He should be getting them the week they come out. As an ethical parent, I would never use my son's card to obtain for myself more than the allowed number of holds at the library unless he wasn't using it for ebooks
Your library (and it looks like most others) is obviously much richer than mine. Mine has zero copies. Ten "new" titles added in the last 30 days. Such "new" titles include publlic domain.
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This may be the source of the rumor:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_882754.html

Rowling has suggested that she might make some other Harry Potter related book that might have the proceeds donated to charity. That's a lot of 'mights'.

They're talking about the long-awaited, much hoped for, Harry Potter bible/encyclopedia/anthology/lexicon whatever you want to call it that she's talked about working on for about ten years now. All the Potter sites talk about it & hope for it one day to become a reality but absolutely nowhere does she or her reps or publishers say proceeds from the sale of the 7 Potter series ebooks or audiobooks, which have been around for years, are going to charity. It's just not true! Sorry.


"There may yet be another Potter book – a long-anticipated encyclopedia. Rowling said she was still considering compiling one, with the proceeds going to charity.

"Will there ever be an encyclopedia?" Rowling said. "Possibly.""
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Old 03-02-2012, 02:03 AM   #99
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Your library (and it looks like most others) is obviously much richer than mine. Mine has zero copies. Ten "new" titles added in the last 30 days. Such "new" titles include publlic domain.
Your library actually has ebooks?
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They're talking about the long-awaited, much hoped for, Harry Potter bible/encyclopedia/anthology/lexicon whatever you want to call it that she's talked about working on for about ten years now. All the Potter sites talk about it & hope for it one day to become a reality but absolutely nowhere does she or her reps or publishers say proceeds from the sale of the 7 Potter series ebooks or audiobooks, which have been around for years, are going to charity. It's just not true! Sorry.
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Maybe but that article was not correct in the first place because the reader was not going to have all 7 books on it. It was only to be the black ones & they were only going to get the first book. It wasn't even on the reader itself, it was a coupon for a free digital download.

It's just misinformation that's been requoted all over the place on the net but none of it is true.

An awful lot of folks, myself included, with the black Sony T1 have a sticker in the top right corner covering the info on the coupon that was to be included in the box for the free first book in the series - Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone. Since Pottermore & the sales of the ebooks got delayed, Sony had to recall the units to open them to remove the coupon, JKR's letter & put the sticker overtop of the Pottermore info on the box. That's why the sale of the T1 itself got delayed.
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I've got the first four checked out. My library has 22 copies and there were between 14-18 still available.
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I've got the first four checked out. My library has 22 copies and there were between 14-18 still available.
You have them checked out and on your reader, or you have your name on the list for when they come out?
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You have them checked out and on your reader, or you have your name on the list for when they come out?
Sorry, I have them on Hold.
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I was going to get really mad if your library already put them out when mine hasn't even looked into obtaining them.
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