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Everyone’s Excited About the New Harry Potter Mobile Game (Even Though We Know Almost Nothing About It)
A new Harry Potter game is coming out next year, we learned today, but that is really about all we know about the game. From Variety: Whip out your...
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Harry Potter Coming to the Real World via the Magic of Augmented Reality
Harrry Potter is about to get the Pokemon Go treatment. Niantic Labs, the Google spin-off that developed the Pokemon Go augmented reality game, has announced they have a deal with...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to be Released as Enhanced Kindle in Motion eBook
Here's some news that will keep Potter fandom on the edge of their sat until September: I've just heard that a new enhanced Harry Potter ebook will be released on...
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Hufflepuffs Least Likely to Buy Merchandize, According to Amazon
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter, Amazon has collated some interesting sales stats on Harry Potter books, movies, and accouterment. “The wizarding world of Harry Potter has...
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Guest Post: As Harry Potter Turns Twenty, Let’s Focus on Reading Pleasure Rather Than Literary Merit
It’s 20 years on June 26 since the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first in the seven-book series. The Philosopher’s Stone has sold more than...
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UK Library Readers to Get Free Access to Harry Potter eBooks
The twentieth anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is coming up in a few short weeks. The Bookseller reports that Pottermore is marking the occasion by making the...
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Rowling’s Pottermore plans to conjure up profit for 2017
Pottermore, J.K. Rowling's digital publishing company, expects to turn a profit in its current fiscal year, buoyed by rising sales of audio books and new ebooks that build on...
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Empire Magazine Has Harry Potter-Like “Magical Beasts” Video Cover
The latest Harry Potter movie is now in theaters, and Empire magazine is marking the occasion by selling its cover to Warner Brothers. The latest edition of Empire comes with a...
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Harry Potter and the Translator’s Nightmare (video)
As anyone who has read the books can tell you, the Harry Potter series is written in British English, and is replete with cultural references which are difficult to translate...
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Much Ado About Nothing: Few Fans Protest New Pottermore Presents eBooks
It is axiomatic that some fans will always be unhappy about any new work from their favorite creator, and the recently published Pottermore Presents ebooks are no exception to...
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New Harry Potter Short Story Collections Coming This September
Remember all those reports that Rowling wasn't going to release new Harry Potter books? It looks like I was right when I noted that Rowling was talking about Harry (as...
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“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” Disappoints Fans
When Harry Potter and the Cursed Child hit best-seller lists last week I expected that a lot of fans would be angry when they discovered it was a script rather...
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Rowling’s History of Magic in North America Criticized for Cultural Appropriation
When JK Rowling announced in June that the Fantastic Beasts spin-off movie would feature an American school of magic, some were concerned that Rowling would appropriate native American culture...
Continue reading Eighth Harry Potter Book Announced, First Seven Now Available as a $15 Omnibus
The Washington Post and many other sites report that JK Rowling has realized that the majority of her fans will never be able to see Harry Potter and the Cursed...
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