NEW YORK – One of the world's most famous digital holdouts, J.K. Rowling has joined the 21st century - but on her own special terms.
The "Harry Potter" author says she has created a new interactive website to be the exclusive seller of the e-book editions of her popular series.
NEW YORK – One of the world's most famous digital holdouts, J.K. Rowling has joined the 21st century - but on her own special terms.
The "Harry Potter" author says she has created a new interactive website to be the exclusive seller of the e-book editions of her popular series.
LONDON – The secret of "Pottermore" has been revealed - Harry Potter's wild wizard adventures are going digital.
Author J.K. Rowling announced Thursday that her seven Potter novels will be sold as e-books starting in October - ending the boy wizard's status as one of the highest-profile holdouts against digital publishing.
LONDON – Harry Potter fans are holding their collective breath as author J.K. Rowling gets set to reveal her latest project involving the boy wizard.
Rowling has called a news conference Thursday in London to reveal details of "Pottermore," a mysterious website that has been taunting fans with the words "coming soon."
NEW YORK – J.K. Rowling has a mysterious new web site.
LONDON – J.K. Rowling's agent says the best-selling author is considering making the "Harry Potter" books available electronically.
Neil Blair, Rowling's agent, says the author is now "actively looking at all the various options" for launching the seven Harry Potter books in the e-book market.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Rupert Grint, who stars in the popular "Harry Potter" films, has been diagnosed with swine flu.
LONDON — A British man was convicted Wednesday of murdering an actor who appears in the upcoming "Harry Potter" movie, The Associated Press reports.
Karl Bishop, 22, was found guilty in the May 2007 stabbing death of 18-year-old Rob Knox. He could be sentenced to life in prison.
Knox was stabbed five times outside a bar near London. At the time of his death, he was trying to protect his younger brother Jamie, 17, who had been threatened by Bishop.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry apparently has a solid college prep program in place.
"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson has been accepted at one of the most prestigous universities in the country and she shared the news through her Twitter account.
"Did I tell you I got accepted to Yale," wrote the 18-year-old French-born actress.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Actor Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that he suffers from a mild form of dyspraxia, a brain disorder that can impair the organization of movement.
"Thankfully his condition is very mild and at worst manifests itself in an inability to tie his shoe laces and bad handwriting," the "Harry Potter" star's rep told the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph.
LONDON — Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling says she was once so depressed that she considered taking her own life.
Speaking to an Edinburgh University student magazine, the 42-year-old Rowling confesses she was extremely depressed in the early 1990s after she separated from her first husband, journalist Jorge Arantes.
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