No e-books for Harry Potter
csmonitor.com
Electronic books may be the fastest growing segment of the publishing world, but some authors are still not interested in participating. You won’t, for instance, find any of the Harry Potter novels in digital format.
Getting permission from an author – or an author’s estate – to release a book in electronic form can be as hard, or harder, than writing it, explains Hillel Italie in a piece for the Associated Press.
There are various reasons why some well known works – including the Harry Potter series, “Catcher in the Rye,” “Catch-22,” “Lolita,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Atlas Shrugged,” “Things Fall Apart,” “The Outsiders,” and “Fahrenheit 451″ – have not been adapted to the e-book format, writes Italie. MORE
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