New Delhi: Pottermore, an online hub developed by author JK Rowling for fans of the boy wizard Harry Potter is now open for all. The free site promises to be an exciting world full of new activities and information on Harry Potter and others from the hit book series. Fans will get additional writings from Rowling about the books, digital games extending the series' themes and plot-lines, e-book reading and...
12:54 PM, May 14, 2012
New York: Harry Potter has joined the Kindle lending library. Amazon.com announced on Thursday that on June 19, the e-book editions of JK Rowling's seven Potter novels will become part of the Kindle service available to Amazon Prime subscribers. Members can download a book for free once a month. Amazon's library has more than 145,000 books. Financial terms were not disclosed for the online retailer's "licensing agreement" with Rowling. Rowling...
11:30 PM, May 13, 2012
London: Author JK Rowling is working on a Harry Potter encyclopedia, and will donate the royalties to charity, she has said on her website. Four years ago the British writer took an independent US publisher to court to stop its plans for a reference book on the world of the fictional boy wizard, saying it constituted a "rip off" of her work. On her re-vamped website, Rowling addressed the question...
09:04 PM, Apr 16, 2012
London: It may lack wizards and witches, but JK Rowling and her publisher are hoping her first novel for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," will have the magic touch. The book's title was announced on Thursday by Little, Brown & Co. along with a brief plot synopsis and publication date. The publisher said the "blackly comic" tale of rivalry and duplicity in a small English town would be available worldwide on...
11:49 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New York: Adult fans of JK Rowling can rejoice: She has a new novel coming, for grownups. The kids will have to wait and see. The author of the mega-selling "Harry Potter" series said on Thursday she has an agreement with Little, Brown in the United States and Britain to publish her first adult novel. The title, release date and details about the novel, long rumored, were not announced. Her...
10:23 PM, Feb 23, 2012
London: Writer JK Rowling and actress Sienna Miller gave a London courtroom a vivid picture on Thursday of the anxiety, anger and fear produced by living in the glare of Britain's tabloid media, describing how press intrusion made them feel like prisoners in their own homes. The creator of boy wizard Harry Potter told Britain's media ethics inquiry that having journalists camped on her doorstep was "like being under siege...
03:53 PM, Nov 25, 2011
London: Actor Hugh Grant and 'Harry Potter' writer JK Rowling will testify in a London courtroom next week about alleged press intrusion into their private lives. They are among witnesses announced today by an inquiry into British media ethics. The inquiry was triggered by the scandal over phone hacking at now-defunct tabloid News of the World. More than 20 alleged hacking victims are scheduled to give evidence starting Monday, including...
01:12 PM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: 10 years and 8 films later, Harry Potter, his friends and his foes " come to you one last time in the documentary by Morgan Matthews called " When Harry Left Hogwarts. The 48 minute documentary is a behind the scenes from the last movie " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. The magnum opus of a last book by JK Rowling was broken in to...
05:41 PM, Oct 21, 2011
London: Harry Potter fans will have to wait a bit longer to buy the magic tales in electronic form. The creators of the online Potter portal said on Friday that the launch of an e-book store has been pushed back to next year. The seven Harry Potter books had been due to go on sale in October, exclusively through the 'Pottermore' website. The site is a combination of virtual encyclopedia,...
09:50 AM, Oct 01, 2011
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, home to the Harry Potter books in Britain, launched its first purely digital imprint on Wednesday which it said would bring out-of-print titles "back from the dead". Bloomsbury Reader has signed up a string of authors including Monica Dickens, great grand-daughter of Charles, politicians Alan Clark and Ted Heath, crime writer HRF Keating and novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett. The publisher is focusing on books which are out of...
02:28 PM, Sep 29, 2011
London: The eight Harry Potter movies have earned more than $7 billion at the box office, Warner Bros said, cementing their place as the biggest grossing series ever. Although the total does not take into account inflation, and attendance figures have generally declined throughout the series according to some analyses, the franchise has been a major success for the Hollywood studio. Dan Fellman, Warner Bros Pictures President of Domestic Distribution,...
01:19 PM, Jul 23, 2011
A decade's worth of anticipation, along with Ms Rowling's efforts, and our dreams that grew around The Boy Who Lived and He Who Must Not be Named. In one single effort. With a swish and a flick, Warner Brothers uttered the magic words. And there lay Harry Potter, dead, across thousands of screens across the world, all at the same time. The worst Potter movie ever made. Period. I suppose...
04:13 PM, Jul 18, 2011
New York: Think Harry Potter has seen his end? Think again! Avid fans of the books and movies about the British boy wizard are determined that even after 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2' has come and gone from movie theatres, their hero of Hogwarts will live on forever. The final film in the series of blockbusters based on JK Rowling's hugely popular novels telling of battles...
09:10 AM, Jul 15, 2011
New Delhi: India got her dose of magical fantasy on Wednesday night as the red carpet premiere of Harry Potter took over the PVR Priya screen. After a long line for popcorn, the heavy 3D glasses on our eyes - we were ready to take on the horcrux hunt. The atmosphere was electric, no one wanted to miss a second. People gave up their place in the popcorn line, after...
12:48 AM, Jul 14, 2011
London: Daniel Radcliffe's role in the Harry Potter franchise turned him into a star, but the actor will not play the same character again as he feels the boy wizard's story has ended in a "perfect way". "I'm the only person in the world that doesn't want there to be an eighth Harry Potter book," he told Star magazine. "Believe me, I've given 10 years - I can! I think...
03:50 PM, Jul 12, 2011
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