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‘Harry Potter’ Series Will Be Free in Amazon’s Kindle Lending Library
If you’re one of the last few people on Earth who haven’t read the Harry Potter series, now you have no excuse. Today Amazon announced that it’s adding all seven of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books to the Kindle Owners’ Lending …
Harry Potter and the Release of the Long-Awaited E-Books
J.K. Rowlings’ Harry Potter books have sold around 450 million copies worldwide — all of them made out of an ancient material your parents know as “paper.” Today, the entire series is entering the digital age, selling as …
Will the Next Sony E-Readers Come with Free Harry Potter?
Sony might have figured out a sneaky but ingenious way to increase sales of its next crop of e-readers: Cash in on the still-existent Harry Potter craze.
According to The Register, the next Sony Readers—to be released in November, in time for the holiday rush—will come pre-loaded with all seven Potter books, ahead of the 2012 …
Google E-Books Gain Momentum with ‘Harry Potter’ Deal
Of all the literature missing from the e-book realm, the omission of the Harry Potter series was seen by many as the most egregious. And for good reason.
The mega-franchise that redefined the outer parameters of mega-franchises not only made series author J.K. Rowling a bona fide billionaire, but it’s responsible for creating entire …
Harry Potter-Style Animated Photo Tech Coming to Greeting Cards
Harry Potter-style animated photos are closer than you might think. A U.K. company is working on technology that prints electronic circuits onto incredibly thin layers of plastic—so thin, they can be attached to paper and you’d hardly notice they were there.
The team at PragmatIC have got together with a greeting card company to put …
10 Technologies We Want to Steal from Harry Potter
From flying cars to portable alarm systems, here are our picks for the best pieces of wizard tech we wish we could take with us.
Some Kind of Wand-erful: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ Review
When you think about it, Harry Potter video games were simply born under a bad sign. The stuff that video games can do well when inspired–incredible world-building, the explication of a fantasy construct and its rules–were all done to genius levels in the rich imaginings of J.K. Rowling’s writing. And then, the eight movies that …
Photo Duo Creates Harry Potter-Style Moving Photos for the Web
Remember the moving photos that appear in newspapers and magazines in the Harry Potter stories?
Well someone’s come up with a digital equivalent that could bring news articles to life on tablet computers, phones and e-readers.
Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg worked together to create subtle animated GIF images for the web. They’re …
Harry Potter Books to Get Digital Release Soon?
It’s taken…well, far too many years, actually, but Harry Potter might finally be getting around to entering the 21st century. The Scotsman newspaper reports that after years ignoring the format, JK Rowling is considering e-book versions of all seven installments of the series that made her name. The newspaper quotes Liz Thomson, editor …
Warner Bros Adds Five More Movies to Facebook
With The Dark Knight‘s Facebook trial being deemed a success, Warner Bros have released five more movies to stream from the social network, and this time they’re going outside of the nerd demographic. As originally announced, Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan’s Inception is now available to stream on the movie’s official Facebook …
10 Fictional Schools To Send Your Children To – To Die
School! It’s where you send your kids when you’ve realized that you don’t love them enough to keep them around all day. But if fiction is to be believed, schools are also magical and exciting places where children learn more than just the basics of geography or math. But with so many schools to choose from, which one offers the most …