Pottermania ?

carpetmojo · 02-14-2012, 04:52 AM

What's happened to the "Potter Story" and Sony ?
It's gorn all quiet lately - or did I miss the bells and whistles, and it's all now out there ?

odiakkoh · 02-14-2012, 06:01 AM

Tbh I totally forgot about it lol

AlexGrama · 02-14-2012, 07:34 AM

What is the "Potter Story" ? :-?

Sweetpea · 02-14-2012, 08:35 AM

I'm losing faith, and doubt we'll see it before the summer.

Another brilliant "let's promise but don't deliver" kind of thing to keep the complainers quiet...

ucfgrad93 · 02-14-2012, 09:14 AM

Personally, I don't think we'll see it until the holiday season.

Sil_liS · 02-14-2012, 10:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexGrama

What is the "Potter Story" ? :-?

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.

HomeInMyShoes · 02-14-2012, 10:08 AM

Potter 2037!!!!

RainingLemur · 02-14-2012, 10:53 AM

I just figure it'll come when it does. There's lots of other books to be read in the mean time.

ucfgrad93 · 02-14-2012, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RainingLemur

I just figure it'll come when it does. There's lots of other books to be read in the mean time.

That is the way I look at it as well. I want the ebooks. I will not purchase the physical books nor will I pirate them.

drofgnal · 02-14-2012, 12:07 PM

I checkd the pottermore blog, and news posting there are far and few between. You'd think they'd a least be upfront about the delay.

ProfCrash · 02-14-2012, 12:39 PM

The books were suppose to go on sale last November but did not because the Pottermore site could not handle the traffic it had from the Beta testers, never mind opening it to the public. At the time, Pottermore said that the site would open to the public sometime in the first half of 2012. They did not give a specific date. The assumption was that when Pottermore went public, so would the store that sells the e-books.

Since then, there was a poll asking people about how they read the series and a bunch of questions regarding the e-book. The poll was open to the public and is now closed. They have not released the results from the poll.

There was concern on this site and others that the poll might be an indication that JKR is not going to release the e-books when Pottermore opened. She has been reluctant to release the e-books (even though she has and uses a Kindle) for some reason (piracy is the biggest). Moving from statements that the e-books were coming and a deal with Sony to release a special edition Harry Potter e-reader to suddenly asking about if there was a need for the e-books was jarring.

So we have no idea when Pottermore will open to the public or if the e-books will be sold at that time.

Ninjalawyer · 02-14-2012, 12:44 PM

I can't see the issue being "piracy", since that ship has long since sailed.

Sil_liS · 02-14-2012, 01:01 PM

There was also the fact that she had said that all the books should be displayed in the same way prompting the discussion about what the format of choice would be.

HomeInMyShoes · 02-14-2012, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

The books were suppose to go on sale last November but did not because the Pottermore site could not handle the traffic it had from the Beta testers, never mind opening it to the public. At the time, Pottermore said that the site would open to the public sometime in the first half of 2012. They did not give a specific date. The assumption was that when Pottermore went public, so would the store that sells the e-books.

So the plan for handling the traffic is to make everyone give up on them and drive traffic away from Pottermore then release them at some undisclosed point?

ProfCrash · 02-14-2012, 02:14 PM

We know it has sailed. She knows that it has sailed. Yet, that tends to be the reason cited. She wants to sell the books from her own store with a watermark DRM that includes the name of the purchaser so that any copy that ends up on the darknet can be traced back to the person who bought it.

She will not sell it from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Sony or Kobo with current DRM because it is not secure enough. There have been the occassional attempts at "I want everyone to get good quality copies and don't trust that would happen through the book sellers" and something about the illustrations. Given that her Publisher submits the copy to be sold from the various bookstores, the quality issues is a bunch of BS.

02-14-2012, 04:52 AM	#1
carpetmojo Wizard Posts: 3,117 Karma: 9269999 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: UK Device: Sony- T3, PRS650, 350, T1/2/3, Paperwhite, Fire 8.9,Samsung Tab S 10.5	Pottermania ? What's happened to the "Potter Story" and Sony ? It's gorn all quiet lately - or did I miss the bells and whistles, and it's all now out there ?

02-14-2012, 06:01 AM	#2
odiakkoh Guru Posts: 823 Karma: 1818344 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: iPhone 5s	Tbh I totally forgot about it lol

02-14-2012, 07:34 AM	#3
AlexGrama Writer Posts: 275 Karma: 345042 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: UK Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Nexus 7	What is the "Potter Story" ? :-?

02-14-2012, 08:35 AM	#4
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	I'm losing faith, and doubt we'll see it before the summer. Another brilliant "let's promise but don't deliver" kind of thing to keep the complainers quiet...

02-14-2012, 09:14 AM	#5
ucfgrad93 Wizard Posts: 2,370 Karma: 9026681 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Colorado Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2nd Gen	Personally, I don't think we'll see it until the holiday season.

02-14-2012, 10:08 AM	#7
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Potter 2037!!!!

02-14-2012, 10:53 AM	#8
RainingLemur Spork Connoisseur Posts: 2,355 Karma: 16780603 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Nook Color	I just figure it'll come when it does. There's lots of other books to be read in the mean time.

02-14-2012, 12:07 PM	#10
drofgnal Wizard Posts: 1,382 Karma: 10000000 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Ipad Pro/Kindle Oasis 3/iPhone 13 Pro Max	I checkd the pottermore blog, and news posting there are far and few between. You'd think they'd a least be upfront about the delay.

02-14-2012, 12:39 PM	#11
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 books were suppose to go on sale last November but did not because the Pottermore site could not handle the traffic it had from the Beta testers, never mind opening it to the public. At the time, Pottermore said that the site would open to the public sometime in the first half of 2012. They did not give a specific date. The assumption was that when Pottermore went public, so would the store that sells the e-books. Since then, there was a poll asking people about how they read the series and a bunch of questions regarding the e-book. The poll was open to the public and is now closed. They have not released the results from the poll. There was concern on this site and others that the poll might be an indication that JKR is not going to release the e-books when Pottermore opened. She has been reluctant to release the e-books (even though she has and uses a Kindle) for some reason (piracy is the biggest). Moving from statements that the e-books were coming and a deal with Sony to release a special edition Harry Potter e-reader to suddenly asking about if there was a need for the e-books was jarring. So we have no idea when Pottermore will open to the public or if the e-books will be sold at that time.

02-14-2012, 12:44 PM	#12
Ninjalawyer Guru Posts: 826 Karma: 18573626 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Touch, Nexus 7 (2013)	I can't see the issue being "piracy", since that ship has long since sailed.

02-14-2012, 01:01 PM	#13
Sil_liS Wizard Posts: 4,896 Karma: 33602910 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: PocketBook 903 & 360+	There was also the fact that she had said that all the books should be displayed in the same way prompting the discussion about what the format of choice would be.

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02-14-2012, 02:14 PM	#15
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	We know it has sailed. She knows that it has sailed. Yet, that tends to be the reason cited. She wants to sell the books from her own store with a watermark DRM that includes the name of the purchaser so that any copy that ends up on the darknet can be traced back to the person who bought it. She will not sell it from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Sony or Kobo with current DRM because it is not secure enough. There have been the occassional attempts at "I want everyone to get good quality copies and don't trust that would happen through the book sellers" and something about the illustrations. Given that her Publisher submits the copy to be sold from the various bookstores, the quality issues is a bunch of BS.