Pottermore, J.K. Rowling’s assault on the big name eBook publishers, will be partnering with another relatively new – but still rather large – eBook supplier to get the Harry Potter series on the Android phones and tablets.
When you buy a Harry Potter book via the Pottermore site you will be able to choose from a variety of formats in which to download. One option will be to save the book to the cloud – using Google Books.
A Harry Potter badge has shown up on foursquare, letting fans of the wizard find his latest film. That’s right, just check in at a cinema when you go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and you’ll see this special Harry Potter badge.
It’s the work of EA Games, promoting its game based on the movie. But it’s not just a pointless promo – check in at the cinema when you see the movie, and you’ll get 25% off the price of the game. Magic.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 sees Harry away from Hogwarts for the first time now that he’s a big boy, in the most grown up Harry Potter game yet. It’s not out in shops till 19th November but we got a chance to play it, using Microsoft Kinect, in a forest! Read on for our Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Microsoft Kinect impressions.
We’re still waiting for an iPhone app that turns your handset into a real working broomstick, but in the meantime, muggles will find a new Harry Potter iPhone app kills the time until that day arrives. It’s a new app that sees you blasting out spells with your iPhone or iPod touch, with multiplayer duelling thrown in.
With its LEGO interpretations of Star Wars, Batman and Indiana Jones proving rather popular, developer Traveller’s Tales is rumoured to be thinking outside the self-assembled box in the hunt for a new theme for the franchise to tackle.
