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You can now buy Harry Potter ebooks for your Kindle or Nook (legally) on Amazon, B&N, etc. This is big news for a few reasons. One is that the Harry Potter books have not been available at all as ebooks legally (though there have been illegal copies floating about). Many fans have been impatiently waiting to load Harry Potter books onto their Kindles or Nooks. Another reason this is big news is because this is the first time an author has been able to sell their ebooks directly to the reader through links on the major ebook retailers Amazon and B&N.
When you buy a Harry Potter ebook from Amazon or from Barnes and Noble, you are redirected to Pottermore, JK Rowling’s own Harry Potter site. I think that’s exciting–an author retaining so much control! I also love that the Harry Potter ebooks are being sold without DRM, making them so much more accessible and easily transferred to different hardware by the buyer (as it should be). The ebooks are still watermarked and can be traced back to the buyer.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter series, is $7.99, and ALL the Harry Potter ebooks are up and available for your Kindle or Nook.
What do you think? If you loved the Harry Potter books, are you going to download them for your Kindle or Nook as well? (I personally buy copies of books I love for both my Kindle and paper book collection.)
- A.B.C. = Airport Bookstore Commentary
- I have visited (and revisited) several bookstores throughout my travels. Mostly in the Denver, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City airports... Anyway, airport bookstores are my favorite type of bookstore in the world (excepting only indie children's bookstores). So I thought I'd share some commentary on each one that I visit.
Bookstore #1: This one's in the Salt Lake City airport. Unfortunately I can't tell you a whole lot about their book selection, browsing comfort, or any of that, because I wasn't able to spend any time in it. It was after I landed in Salt Lake City (earlier this month on the latter part of a trip I took; you know, the one where
I met Tony DiTerlizzi in CA?). I was excited to see my cousins and also tired from my long day of traveling, thus I didn't take the time to browse here.
HOWEVER - I simply had to share this bookstore with you, because it boasted a very special feature. Lining the walls above the shelves were some purely brilliant quotes from some of
the most famous authors in all of history.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, or, "Fitzy," as I have taken to calling him thanks to
Little Willow:
J.K. Rowling: Stephen King: J.R.R. Tolkien: Shakespeare: Truman Capote: C.S. Lewis: Just beautiful!
Today in Ypulse Books, Alli kicks off her new feature where she asks YA authors "One Simple Question." See how authors like Melissa Walker and Lisa McMann responded. And in Ypulse Book Essentials, follow the links to news about the J.K.... Read the rest of this post
So that's it then - the last book in the Harry Potter series has been published, devoured, demolished and discussed endlessly. If you're not all talked out already, please feel free to post here and share your likes and dislikes about the book, how you feel about the Epilogue (which seems to have divided fans) and what you feel worked or didn't work...
For my part, I enjoyed it and thought it was a reasonably satisfying conclusion to the series. I was glad that I was proved right about Harry not having it in him to kill Voldemort, and very glad that Neville, Ginny and Luna lived up to my expectations of playing significant roles (even if they didn't do so in the way I'd hoped).
I was intrigued by the two quotations that started the book, and I thought Rowling did a fairly good job of tying up the loose ends. Dumbledore's back-story was intriguing and interesting as was Snape's, although I think many of us had already guessed that he loved Lily.
Now it's over to you.
By: Rebecca,
on 4/17/2007
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James McCune Smith was one of the foremost black intellectuals in America, the first to receive a medical degree and the most educated African American before W. E. B. Du Bois. McCune Smith publicly advocated the use of “black” rather than “colored” as a self-description and he, like James Weldon Johnson and other successors, treated racial identities as social constructions and argued that American literature, music, and dance would be shaped and defined by blacks.
John Stauffer, the editor of The Works of James McCune Smith: Black Intellectual and Abolitionist, has organized McCune Smith’s writings around genre and chronology. Stauffer, along with three other distinguished historians will discuss Smith’s life, work, and legacy at The New York Historical Society on Wednesday, April 18th at 6:30 pm. Below is a video from The Historical Society’s current exhibition “New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War.” The video is of letters written by McCune Smith read by the actor Danny Glover. (more…)
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Sweet. Go Salt Lake!
Sweet idea! (ABC.) And the quotes are awesome. The Stephen King one reminds me of that Picasso quote - "Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth," or something like that.
Ok, that's basically amazing. :) I love the C.S. Lewis quote!
Okay. When I have my house... I am GANKING this idea. Very cool, what great quotes.
that is so AWESOME erin!
I wanna go :( haha
I'm pretty sure the Detroit airport has a bookstore. Wanna come inspect it?
What a cool idea... I'm hoping you will keep at it. And I need to visit the SLC airport now, just so I can see the bookstore for myself! (And I shamelessly borrowed some of the quotes...)
LOVE THIS. Oh, oh, how inspiring!
WICKED
thanks 4 sharing!
Great idea! :)
I was in the Minneapolis airport's bookstores two weeks ago ... reading The Brothers Karamasov on my way back from Kiev. The Authors store there has a cool banners over the entrance. Not as good as your photos, of course, but I'm guessing it might be in your posting future...
Awesome pictures! That is so cool.
That has to be the coolest airport bookstore ever.
That is so awesome, Erin.
Unfortunately, with two kids in tow I'm barely making my flights so have never noticed this bookstore at the SLC airport. Why do you go through it so often? I just looked at your profile and saw you are in Idaho.
Natasha: my family and I visit CA a couple times a year for medical reasons; our layover on the way there is usually in Denver and on the way home our stop is usually in SLC. :)
Thanks for posting those quotes!
I love the pictures! So cool and what great quotes. :)
Awesome pics! That looks like a great bookstore--I just love all those quotes.
I do not have a facebook, sorry to say, but I'm thinking of starting to blog again. Even though I have a pretty hectic life in college, I still find myself wanting to talk about books on my blog :-)
Can you please post the address? I just need a link somewhere. Maybe even for a few minutes. That would be enough. Plus...
it's usamahrocks.myspace.com
and he's this kid in my class. He's not supposed to have a myspace and I just really want to see what it is.