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It’s a great time to be a Harry Potter fan with a Kindle, now that Amazon has announced that all seven Harry Potter books will be available for free through the Kindle Lending Library via its Prime service. But for Dumbledore and Quidditch ...  

HARRY POTTER has gone from Hogwarts to highbrow – with academics gathering in Scotland for a world summit on the boy wizard. Scholars will discuss the JK Rowling books over two days, with 50 lectures scheduled at St Andrews University. Topics include the ...  

(gigaom.com) -- The books and movies have come to an end but Harry Potter is living on in Pottermore, a digital land and e-book store that is set to leave yet another giant business footprint. The latest JK Rowling franchise has also raised ...  

Daily MailHarry Potter Fans Abandon Pet OwlsGlobal AnimalGlobal Animal It's no secret that the “Harry Potter” books and films are pretty powerful and influential, but did you know it may be the cause of the abandonment of hundreds of pet owls? According to the Mirror, fans of the JK Rowling series bought ...'Harry Potter' Fans Abandoning Pet Owls Following End Of SeriesHuffington PostViews | Beyond Harry PotterLivemintHarry Potter as a serious...  

The Queen has named a litter of puppies after characters from the widely successful Harry Potter series. The puppies include a Labrador named Gryffindor, the house name at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry of which the main character Harry belongs to.  

It is. However, Mullan’s argument isn’t that the Harry Potter series is bad (he says his kids love the books), only that it isn’t serious enough to reward scholarly attention. “Harry Potter is for children,” he said, “not for grown-ups.”  

The wizarding world of Harry Potter has taken the planet by storm, selling half a billion copies and reconnecting children and adults everywhere with a love of reading. An international phenom, the series has been translated into over 70 ...  

Sometime ago, I pledged to wait on reading the Harry Potter series until it came out as ebooks. I was ready and willing for October's planned debut on Google Books, but that was cancelled last minute. What happened instead mindboggles. In late March, author JK Rowling opened the Pottermore Shop to sell the ebooks directly -- in formats for most any device and with no onerous digital rights management. Let me emphasize that last bit: no DRM. I...  

The news that the first academic conference wholly devoted to the study of the Harry Potter novels as literary texts was held at the weekend at St. Andrew’s University - in which literary scholars from around the world critiqued and analysed the semiotic ...  

Sydney: Inspired by JK Rowling, who authored the Harry Potter series, scientists have created a rapid new blood test that literally spells out a patient's blood type on bioactive paper. Created by Wei Shen, associate professor and colleagues at ...  

In less than one month, more than 4.8 million dollars worth of Harry Potter eBooks have been sold at JK Rowling's website, Pottermore. During the first two weeks Pottermore was open to the general public, they saw 22 million visits from seven ...  

An Amazon.com program that allows Kindle owners to read e-books free has just made a high-profile addition: the "Harry Potter" series. Beginning June 19, consumers who own Kindle devices and subscribe to Amazon Prime will be able to read all seven "Harry Potter" e-books free through the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.  

A St Andrews conference on the Harry Potter series as literary texts has not met with universal approval in the academic worldAcademics gathered in Scotland on Friday to discuss hot literary topics including the racial politics of goblins, the canonisation of Neville Longbottom, and Beedle the Bard as mythopoesis in the Chaucerian tradition. Welcome to the UK's first conference on Harry Potter.Entitled A Brand of Fictional Magic: Reading Harry...  

A self-writing diary in one of JK Rowling’s books on Harry Potter has inspired researchers to create a paper that spells out a person’s blood type, reports the BBC website. A team from Monash University in Australia has developed a paper-based sensor ...