Pottermore leak

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

Pottermore, if the yahoo info below is true apparently it's a online game...why am I not surprised - IF it is a game, who wants to take a wild guess they want us to pay to play it.

http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/792-report-j-k-rowling-to-unveil-harry-potter-online-game

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[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

Here we go people...you can buy the book in ebook format now! (LOL!) - and it sounds a bit like she's doing a social network site to - so it's kind of the facebook for potter poeple I guess?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/jk-rowling-pottermore-announcement-fizzles-ebooks-launched-but-no-sequel/article2072158/

Copy from the article above

The seven Harry Potter novels will for the first time be available in ebook form in October, author J.K. Rowling said on Thursday at the launch of a new interactive online website Pottermore (www.pottermore.com) that will allow readers to navigate through the boy wizard stories.

Ms. Rowling also has written new Potter material for the interactive site, the mega-bestselling author says it includes “information I have been hoarding” about the books' characters and settings.

So, it's basicly going to sorta be like...um...her online encyclopidia??


More quotin'

The site immerses users in the boy wizard's world, combining elements of computer game, social network and online store. The site goes live for select members July 31, and will open to the general public in October.

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

And to add to this (since I posted to quickly) There is a video at the bottom but right now I can't watch it due to dialup collection here at home.

[oryx_leucoryx]

iand it sounds a bit like she's doing a social network site to - so it's kind of the facebook for potter poeple I guess

Can we please follow Severus?

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

Can we please follow Severus?

ha! Yea! Adds Severus to friends list.


If there is no Snape then there is no me surfing the wonderment of Pottermore - but I kind of find the idea of Severus Snape finding himself stuck on a site called pottermore kind of amusing.

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

You just KNOW he has his own site set up, ready to go live the same time as JKR's, that is called POTTERLESS. Absolutely no Potters allowed there.

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

I would join that site in a heartbeat.

[majorjune.livejournal.com]

The site immerses users in the boy wizard's world, combining elements of computer game, social network and online store. The site goes live for select members July 31, and will open to the general public in October.

Yeah, that's what I posted last week from some fan site that had a few screenshots of the Pottermore site; they posted last week that it was going to be a "social media" site that also had games, fan fiction, and the ability to download the books in "e-read format"...

Seems to me that it's a little late in the game to be trying to gen any substantial interest in a Harry Potter social networking site, and since there's so many fan fiction sites that have been around for years, seems to me that THAT train left the station long ago, too! :-o

And just who are these "select members" who get early access, and how were they awarded such elevated status? And why do they think anyone will give a damn about the site by October? I could have seen launching it to coincide with the movie coming out in July, but all that hype will have died by October...

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

Exactly, whats the deal with waiting till Oct.

I think it says something about those early access people will be allowed in to help shape the world or??? sorry I can't remember the exact wording but it almost sounds like a bit of a beta where those early people are going to get to test and give advice, etc.

[majorjune.livejournal.com]

but it almost sounds like a bit of a beta where those early people are going to get to test and give advice, etc.

That's EXACTLY what it is; according to one of the links, Rowling's been working with some software firm on this for two years, so obviously they've gone thru internal beta testing and now want to try it out with a "select few" outsiders for the final stage of beta testing.

Which is even more a reason for us non-Rowling slaves to try to get into it on July 31st, because you know that the beta testing process so far has to have been directed in some manner by Rowling. It'll need our more objective outlook! LOL

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

Heh, I think I'm quite looking forward to we 'non-Rowling slaves' hopping on and interacting with the pro-Jo crowd.

I just hope there isn't something in the Terms & Conditions like "only positive comments about our Jo and her HP creation will be allowed".

[mmmarcusz.livejournal.com]

So, it's basicly going to sorta be like...um...her online encyclopidia??

If i were Steve Vander Ark, I'd insert a few intentional errors into the Lexicon - just to show what sources the encyclopedia will use.