Harry Potter Goes Digital 《哈里?波特》電子書
Harry Potter Goes Digital 《哈里?波特》電子書
英語學習點: Publishing 出版
Author J.K. Rowling is launching a Harry Potter website.
With the final Harry Potter movie premiering next week, fans of the wizard may be wondering where to go next.
Well, on 31 July – Harry Potter's birthday – the website Pottermore will go live.
The site will allow users to "rediscover" the Harry Potter saga.
Author J.K. Rowling has also said she has new material about Harry Potter's world to add to the experience. But the site isn't just a free 'thank-you' to fans.
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It will also feature a shop where users will be able to buy eBook and digital audiobook versions of the best-sellers. They will be published through Rowling's Pottermore Publishing company, which owns the digital rights.
Print media has been kind to J.K. Rowling. The Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies through Bloomsbury in Britain and Scholastic in the USA. So has it been difficult for her to move away from "dead-tree" media?
She said: "The format isn't particularly important to me. I am a big fan of print and paper... But very very recently this year for the first time, I downloaded eBooks and I was travelling, and it was a godsend."
Writing on the Digital Spy website, Mayer Nissim dismisses the site as "a pretty eBook store with a monopoly on selling Potter books. With sales of Kindles and iPads going through the roof, it's a pretty lucrative market."
But Pottermore is still sure to please many a potty Potter fan. It will launch in October, but a million users will be allowed to join in July.
Glossary 詞匯表 (收聽發(fā)音, 請單擊英語單詞)
- to premiere 初次上演，首映
- to go live 上線
- saga 長篇小說或小說集
- eBook 電子書
- digital audiobook 有聲電子書
- best-seller 暢銷書
- digital rights 電子版權
- print media 印刷媒體
- "dead tree" media 對印刷媒體的幽默稱呼
- format 版式，形式
- to download something 下載什么東西
- godsend 上帝所賜
- to dismiss something 認為不值一談
- a monopoly on something 對什么的壟斷
- Kindle 亞馬遜金讀電子閱讀器
- iPad 蘋果公司的平板電腦
- with sales... going through the roof 銷售量超高
- a lucrative market 利潤豐厚的市場
- potty （口語）有點瘋狂的，愚蠢的
- to launch 新產品的出版，推出
