{"id":2052,"date":"2011-07-21T11:20:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2011-08-16T14:24:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T19:24:44","slug":"google-brings-its-magic-to-pottermore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/google-brings-its-magic-to-pottermore\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Brings Its Magic To Pottermore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest article by Joan Weiner<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

When the official online home of Harry Potter, Pottermore<\/a>, goes live this October, it will bring a little Google magic to make it happen<\/a>. Google today announced on its official blog that the Harry Potter eBooks, to be sold exclusively on Pottermore, will be on the Google Open eBook <\/a>platform.<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, Google Checkout<\/a> will be the official digital payment system.<\/p>\n

What this means for Pottermaniacs who wish to read the adventures of the boy wizard on a digital device is that after making the mandatory purchase of the books (or audio books) at Pottermore.com, you can then store the ebooks in the cloud on your library of Google Books or transfer them to any device that supports Google’s open ebook format.<\/p>\n

Following Google’s announcement, Amazon, whose Kindle eReader doesn’t support Google eBooks, clarified that they’re “working closely with Pottermore<\/a>,” to bring the Potter series to the Kindle as well.<\/p>\n

The other good news for Potter fans is that the ebooks will be DRM-free, which will make transferring the books between multiple devices much easier. The eBooks will, however, be digitally signed though to prevent piracy and make any attempted piracy easier to catch.<\/p>\n

Observers noted that the choice of Google as an ecommerce partner is a logical choice, because the opening of Pottermore will certainly cause a stampede of visitors and Google should have the capacity to handle it.<\/p>\n

This is the second announcement in two weeks about ebook products being fully integrated with Google ebooks. Last week, Techcitement reported on the release of the iRiver<\/a>, the first eReader fully integrated with Google eBooks. This latest announcement is a boost for them as they will be the eReader “native” for Harry Potter. The Boy Who Lived looks like he’s finding yet another place to cast his magic in the digital world.<\/p>\n

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