Pottermore head Charlie Redmayne offered a couple of new tidbits in an interview with Laura Hazard Owen at Wednesday’s Paid Content conference. He said that “over 50 percent of the sales” of Harry Potter ebooks so far “are coming direct” through the Pottermore site. Redmayne had originally “estimated that a high percentage of the sales would come from” the ebookstores they partnered with. (He didn’t specify whether he meant all ebook sales, or just the English-language edition.) Also, confirming the line of reasoning we have taken from the start–and in contrast to some trade accounts that have tried to depict […]
