Harry Potter ebooks! Really! - Page 5

pdurrant · 03-27-2012, 11:37 AM

I've just found out: When you send a book from Pottermore to your Amazon account, it automatically queues it up for download to all your registered Kindles!

murraypaul · 03-27-2012, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga

Almost no one could build a site that could flawlessly handle the volume of traffic they're currently experiencing.

Do you think they are selling more total items today than Amazon will?
And it isn't as if they have taken years to get it right... oh, wait

ProfCrash · 03-27-2012, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by fjtorres

You do know they subcontracted the site to Sony, right?
(That's why the T1 is plastered all over.)
And we all know how great Sony is at software development; always robust and on-time.

As is, it's lasted longer than I expected.

The books will still be there tomorrow. And next month.
Sooner or later we'll get through.

I have no idea, I cannot get onto the site to see that.

Quake1028 · 03-27-2012, 11:38 AM

I can get the site to load fine, but it's not accepting my payment method. Some damn Master Card secure code that I keep changing but never is working to what I am changing it to.

pdurrant · 03-27-2012, 11:41 AM

It seems I'm the only one who feels the price is a little high, and even I paid it.

Yapyap · 03-27-2012, 11:44 AM

My reaction to the price was "not completely unreasonable, although on the high side for something first released years ago" - but it could have been a lot worse.

I noticed that the books go to the Books part under Manage My Kindle on Amazon, not Personal Documents (when sent there directly from Pottermore), so that's nice.

ProfCrash · 03-27-2012, 11:45 AM

The prices are fine. They are lower then what I thought they would be.

JSWolf · 03-27-2012, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by anamardoll

I bought the first one. The download screen looks like (attached) and gives you the option to "link" to a store account. For the moment, I declined to link to B&N since I don't know what that means -- I opted for direct download, which gives you an epub.

It's running via epub preview in Calibre; I searched for my name and found nothing. (Yay.)

Booting it up in Sigil, no mention of my name there either. Nor the last four digits of my credit card.

Dare I hope they gave up on the watermarking entirely?

Very exciting. I'm off to buy the rest!

ETA: Not sure how I feel about that Remaining Personal Downloads: 7 thing at the top, though.

Does it have embedded fonts? If not, I'll have to add them in.

HarryT · 03-27-2012, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

It seems I'm the only one who feels the price is a little high, and even I paid it.

£7 for a large book like the last few HP books? It's a little on the high side, but not outrageous. £5 would have been better, I think.

anamardoll · 03-27-2012, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Does it have embedded fonts? If not, I'll have to add them in.

It looks to me like it does not. But I'm just looking in Sigil at the empty Fonts folder. When I changed the ".epub" to ".zip", I couldn't even find a Fonts folder in it.

If there's no special fonts, I'm happy. I font-strip anyway.

anamardoll · 03-27-2012, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

It seems I'm the only one who feels the price is a little high, and even I paid it.

I thought it was a bit high, but I've never read the books before (except the first one), so it's a "new" book for me.

Quake1028 · 03-27-2012, 11:51 AM

Success! Bank called and cleared my card and they are now all downloaded to my iPad 3

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JSWolf · 03-27-2012, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by anamardoll

The CSS calls out "Times New Roman" in several places. The "Fonts" folder (as viewed in Sigil) appears to be empty.

Looks like I'll have to put in the fonts. Oh well. Shouldn't been too hard to do.

JSWolf · 03-27-2012, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by fjtorres

And for those dreaming that Rowling would marginalize Kindle users (yeah, riiiight!):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...harry%20potter

Oh, and... erhm...
(Don't take it out on me...)

They are cheaper if you buy from Amazon.

(For a Change, Amazon is the Affiliate to their partner.)

Sorceror's Stone: $6.39
Chamber of Secrets: $5.99
Prisoner of Azkhaban: $5.79
Goblet of Fire: $6.98
Order of the Phoenix: $7.11
Half-blood Prince: $7.01
Deathly Hallows: $7.99

Total: $47.26

Your prices will likely vary.

Edit: And the prices *have* varied. Up to full list price, now.
Somebody must've whined.

You try to buy from Amazon and you are directed to Pottermore. And the prices are all the same. There is no discount from Amazon. It's not true that you get a discount at Amazon.

JSWolf · 03-27-2012, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Nyssa

They are also now available on Amazon

Amazon directs you to Pottermore to buy them.

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03-27-2012, 11:37 AM	#61
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 71,514 Karma: 306214458 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Voyage	I've just found out: When you send a book from Pottermore to your Amazon account, it automatically queues it up for download to all your registered Kindles!

03-27-2012, 11:38 AM	#64
Quake1028 Guru Posts: 917 Karma: 9155462 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Tampa, FL Device: See signature	I can get the site to load fine, but it's not accepting my payment method. Some damn Master Card secure code that I keep changing but never is working to what I am changing it to.

03-27-2012, 11:41 AM	#65
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 71,514 Karma: 306214458 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Voyage	It seems I'm the only one who feels the price is a little high, and even I paid it.

03-27-2012, 11:44 AM	#66
Yapyap Guru Posts: 861 Karma: 3543721 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Estonia Device: Kindle Paperwhite, iPad 3, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge	My reaction to the price was "not completely unreasonable, although on the high side for something first released years ago" - but it could have been a lot worse. I noticed that the books go to the Books part under Manage My Kindle on Amazon, not Personal Documents (when sent there directly from Pottermore), so that's nice.

03-27-2012, 11:45 AM	#67
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	The prices are fine. They are lower then what I thought they would be.

03-27-2012, 11:51 AM	#72
Quake1028 Guru Posts: 917 Karma: 9155462 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Tampa, FL Device: See signature	Success! Bank called and cleared my card and they are now all downloaded to my iPad 3 .

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