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With ‘Harry Potter,’ Publishing Finally Has Its ‘Radiohead Moment’
After a week of heavy speculation, JK Rowling has revealed that she is to self-publish the e-books to her mind-bogglingly successful Harry Potter series through her newly-announced proprietary...
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Magic Indeed: J.K. Rowling Rethinks the Art of Fiction
IT ALL ENDS JULY 15 Seldom has a marketing slogan offered such direct insight into the Hollywood psyche. July 15 was, of course, the day Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 opened, concluding...
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Harry Potter or Steve Jobs? The New Midnight Release Party
Jobs' biography may be the first great digital book event, a last hurrah for the culture-spanning hardcover, a collective reading experience of Potteresque proportions. But it's also a call to grow up,...
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‘Pottermore’ Breaks All Retailers and Rules (Except Apple’s and Region...
Even the most radical, tectonic-plate-shifting experiments in digital publishing are still part and parcel of the world of books we've inherited: its assumptions, its economics, and its encumberances.
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