"Rowling: No e-book for Harry Potter VII" By Hillel Italie, AP National Writer, discusses an issue that we have not touched on in our discussions in class and online. We find out in the article that J.K. Rowling, the author of the "Harry Potter" series has not and will not allow her renowned Harry Potter books to be released as e-books. Italie states that Rowling has two reasons why she does not want her books published online. The first involves online piracy; Italie says that the Harry Potter books have not had a major problem with piracy. The second reason is something that we all have discussed as a major problem with e-books, which is the experience of reading a book on paper and the emotional attachment we feel toward those books.
Rowling prefers printed words and she even writes her stories longhand. She once had a problem finding regular lined paper in the center of a town in Scotland, which delayed her writing of the seventh Potter book. It took her forty-five minutes to find lined paper and she was quite frustrated because she was near a university. For those who have read and are anxiously awaiting Harry Potter's next year at Hogwart's, she announced last week that "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will be out July 21, 2007. Italie ends the article with a simple statement about the success of the Harry Potter series: "the six previous books have sold more than 325 million copies."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_on_hi_te/harry_potter_e_books