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Harry Potter eBooks Now Available on Kindle, Nook and Kobo

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The entire Harry Potter saga is now available to be directly purchased from your favorite digital bookstore. In the past, if a retailer was listing the books it would redirect you to the J.K. Rowling Pottermore website to complete the transaction. Now, everything is seamless.
Pottermore launched in 2012 as a digital home for all things Potter. Anyone who wanted the books had to come directly to the website. In order to draw attention to their service they did a cross-promotion with Sony. Anyone who want a PRS-T1 or PRS-T2 e-reader got a free Harry Potter e-book. Once the Sony contract expired, Pottermore found themselves in a situation where sales dropped 352% in March 2015 from £24.8 million to £7 million. The entire Pottermore service than suffered a horrific loss of £6 million in 2015.

The mounting loses were enough to convince Pottermore and J.K. Rowling to have less control over the sales and distribution of the e-books and start allowing Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and other retailers to market them directly.  This is a win for customers who are often loyal to one particular bookstore and want to read all things Potter on their e-reader.

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  • Jonathan Agathokles

    “This is a win for customers who are often loyal to one particular bookstore and want to read all things Potter on their e-reader.”

    But weren’t the customer’s able to have the ebooks, once purchased on Pottermore, sent to all these major ebook retailers? That’s how I sent them to my Kobo-account. I don’t really see how this is such a major win for customers, the only thing that really changes is that now they don’t have to make a Pottermore account to buy the books before sending them to their Amazon-, Kobo-, B&N-, *whatever*-account.

  • The middleman has been cut out, no longer will you be redirected to Pottermore to purchase the book. This is a boon because you don’t have to make new accounts. You can simply buy all the books, and have them instantly available. In the past, you could not say buy the HP books on the kindle or Kobo e-readers, now you can.