eBooks, News February 24, 2012

J. K. Rowling Announces Upcoming ‘Novel for Adults’

It seems forever ago that the J. K. Rowling announced the Pottermore site … which itself seems to have been in ‘beta’ for an eternity. And here we site in 2012 years since the last book and now the last half of the last movie is on DVD and STILL we don’t have the Harry Potter series on ebook.

But at least we now have a hint about what J.K. Rowling is up to – a new novel targeted at an adult audience. On her site she has the image above and a sign up for info area.

The note reads:

“Although I’ve enjoyed writing it just as much, my next novel will be very different from the Harry Potter Series.”

Head to the official JK Rowling site to sign up for more information!

What do you think she will write? Straight fiction? Fantasy? Supernatural? Zombies? Halo fan fiction? Let us know in the comments!

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I’m interested in how it turns out, but *much more* interested in getting the Potter books in eBook form, dammit!
- http://www.geardiary.com/ Michael Anderson
  
  Agreed – and I would be much more interested IF I knew that it would simul-launch in ebook form … but since we’ve still not seen the HP series in ebook, I’ll just assume this won’t happen and therefore I won’t be buying.
  - http://www.geardiary.com Carly Z
    
    Actually I saw somewhere that Rowling gave Simon and Schuster the ebook rights (she kept the hp rights). So it is up to S&S, not Rowling…I bet we will see an ebook release quickly.
- ucfgrad93
  
  Agreed. I won’t purchase the new book until the HP books are released as ebooks.
- http://twitter.com/doogald doogald
  
  The Potter ebooks will be sold exclusively through the pottermore web site. They were supposed to go in sale in October, but the site’s delay has delayed the ebooks until sometime this year – supposedly early 2012.
  
  And I read somewhere that Google Books, weirdly, has the exclusive US rights: http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/07/need-to-know-google-ebooks-lands-lucrative-pottermore-deal/
  - http://www.geardiary.com Carly Z
    
    Hmm…this is really a separate topic, but I wonder if that’s why Google has abruptly fired a whole slew of Google books affiliates. They don’t want to share the one time Google books might possibly be a success.
  - ucfgrad93
    
    Yeah, I know they are supposed to be sold through Pottermore. However, I don’t think we will be seeing them in early 2012. My guess isn’t until Christmas of this year.