After months and months of patience and frustration, the Harry
Potter fans will finally be able to access the Pottermore website as
well as the e-books and others merchandise in early April!
The news was announced on the official website of Pottermore and
the post read "We’re pleased to announce that
pottermore.com will be open
to everyone in early April 2012."...
In the year 2011
we had the end of a glorious reign of magical creatures, wizards,
witches and Hogwarts and the start of a crazed teen (and even crazed
mothers) book series of vampires and werewolves that transpired into
movies.
With so many
teen books becoming movies, what is the next BIG thing for 2012? The
Hunger Game Trilogy is to become a movie soon and many are excited
and in anticipation. Perhaps this series will be the new “Twilight”
craze? Only readers will tell. 2012 is rumor...
The Pottermore
website is now back online after the maintenance on November 2nd,
but is still not open to the public. The Pottermore
website was on a maintenance for three days straight and was back
online on November 5th.
Based on the
official blog of Pottermore,
they have made some changes during the maintenance to the Hardware so
that participants no longer risk getting stuck at points on the
website. However, the website access is still limited to 1 milli...
If you remember, we had published an article where J.K. Rowling announced pottermore. Pottermore is community for the Harry Potter fanatics. The beta version of the website has been launched on July 31st and is still available as a beta version for late subscriptions.
Now the full version of the website, which was supposed to be available on in October 2001 has been extended.
By the last news from the official blog of pottermore, Pottermore-insider, on November 2nd the beta version of the...
The Swedish Academy gave to, the 80 years old Swedish poet, Tomas Tranströmer, the Nobel Prize for Literature. He won it not even a hour ago (as I am writing this blog post). Tomas Tranströmer is the 2011 winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature. He won it at about 7PM EST time.
The Swedish Academy says and I quote "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality".
Isn't that beautiful? Congratulations amazing Tomas Tranströmer and long live literature!... Continue reading ...
J.K. Rowling announces a free website called Pottermore where the Harry Potter fanatics can register. The website will be open in October and it will be a community specifically centered around the Harry Potter book series. Pottermore will be a website where the Harry Potter fans can read, share and rediscover the story, J.K Rowling announced. The fans will also be able to purchase exclusive digital books and e-books of the Harry Potter series! The fans have been waiting for something like...
Marvel Comics, the famous American comic book publisher will see one of his superheroes in theater on July 22nd. We are talking about Captain America. The movie entitled “Captain America: The First Avenger,” based on one of the Captain America book series will be released in theater on July 22nd of this year.
Captain America is not really a superhero, but a “super-soldier” of the second World War. With his armours that have the colors of the USA flag, he is fighting against Hitler a...
For the E-Book readers out there, I think that this is great news. Sony wants to compete with the Amazon Kindle by releasing their own E-Book readers. Some days ago, I have posted an article to talk about Barnes & Noble's strategy to compete with the Kindle.
Today, Amazon announced that they will reduce their Kindle 3G price and then, right after this announcement, Sony announced that they will release two digital E-Book readers that will cost between $180 and $3...
Do you know the Kindle? It's an e-book(electronic book) reader made by Amazon. It's the most popular e-book reader. Now one of the main competitor of the Kindle is called the Nook which is made by Barnes & Noble. Now to be even more competitive Barnes & Noble decided to give away free e-books to people that are ready to change their current ebook reader for their Nook, Since July 1st 2011. Barnes & Noble are giving away 30 free e-books to anyone ready to change their current e-book reader ...
If you are usually buying your books at Barnes & Noble, you might have heard that this booksellers company has been trying to find a buyer who would buy the company.It looks like Barnes & Noble might have found a potential buyer. That buyer might be Liberty Media, which is some kind of a “multi-company” institution that owns different kinds of companies like television companies, radio, internet, etc. It's called a media conglomerate. ...
Ever seen the hit television show True Blood? Or perhaps you are hooked on the novel series "Sookie Stackhouse Novels" by. Charlaine Harris? If you are into either one there is some big news! The next novel in the new Sookie Stackhouse series will be released in May of 2011 and True Blood, the hit television show will be releasing it's 4th season June 26, 2011. True Blood is a recreation of the thriller murder mystery novel series. The next installment is the 11th novel By. Charlaine Harri...
One of today's best-selling book on Amazon is Bossypants by Tina Fey. Bossypants is in the top 100 for 34 days now as I am writing this. On April 8th, Tina Fey was atBarnes&Noble in New York to give signed autographs to hundreds of people. First, Tina Fey is known to be an actress, but it looks like she has added author to her resume and she is doing pretty well since this book is also among the top 150 books sold in America based on USATODAY.
Stephenie Meyer has come out saying she is leaving Twilight in the past and going to the future with mermaids, literally. Her mermaids will be time-traveling in her new novels. Check out this link if you don't believe us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRj86uAlask
“The New VA Series Last Sacrifice will be the last book about Rose, but it'll be followed by a spin-off series still set in the Vampire Academy world. Side characters we know from the current series will now be our main characters, and there'll be a whole new storyline (not the last one told from a different perspective). It is scheduled for release in August 2011 and is called Bloodlines.”
Here are the 5 most read books in the world for all types and kinds of books.
You might have heard about it, but the most read book is the Holy Bible. It is hard to put a number on how many people possess a Bible, as religious books are sometimes given for free to people rather than sold.
On the second rank right after the Bible is Quotations From Chairman Mao. This book contains quotations taken from speeches and statements of, Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao), a revolutionary Chinese from the C...
The popular series of The Dark Tower is still not outdated. The Battle of Tull, is the next portion of The Dark Tower series. It is scheduled to be released in June 2011. This news was announced on Stephen King's official website.
J.K. Rowling hesitated a lot on the idea of releasing Harry Potter books in e-books (electronic book) versions. But she finally decided that this might be a good idea, as the fans were asking for this too.
We can say that J.K. Rowling is entering the 21st century with those famous book and every fan must be happy about that. The news was announced by J.K. Rowling's agent Neil Bair. However, we still don't know when those books will be released, as J.K. Rowlin...
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