Dear Pottermore team First of all thank you for coming up with this innovative experience. Harry Potter fans around the world had fun with the Seven Days, Seven, Books, Seven Chances to win early access. However… Please remember that these are FANS who have won a COMPETITION for early access, not professional beta testers. While it is clear in the Help information that not everyone will be granted access to the site at the same time, I believe you really need to manage fans’ expectations. While most of us can understand that not everyone can get in at the same time, telling us we "may have to wait a few weeks for our welcome email" is not very helpful. It’s only "a few weeks" until the site officially opens to everyone. Rumours are floating on the internet ranging from "the emails are being sent now" to "you may not get your access until the day before everyone else." Please clarify. While anticipation can heighten excitement, nobody, not even the most passionate Harry fan, can maintain enthusiasm for an unspecific period of time. All that will happen is that their interest in and excitement about the site will die off. Please…
I decided it was time I started blogging about my passion for fantasy literature and shared my views on some of the books I’ve been reading, movies I’ve seen and TV shows I’ve watched. Along with many Harry Potter fans, I’d been intrigued by J.K. Rowling’s announcement of the Pottermore website. Promoted as an "online Harry Potter experience," few details were released. Clearly though, it is a vehicle for Rowling to market the Harry Potter ebooks. JKR shrewdly retained the ebook rights for herself. Hey, I’m a Kindle and ebook lover, so that’s all good with me. If, in addition I get to be Sorted into a Hogwarts House (am I the only person who’d be content to be Sorted into Hufflepuff?) and choose my wand, I’m sold. Additionally, it appears JKR will be contributing a significant amount of new Harry Potter content via Pottermore. She’s talked for some time about publishing a Harry Potter encyclopaedia. It would appear that she has chosen to publish this online rather than in the traditional format. More Potter content? Bring it on, I say. Anyway…. Pottermore is due to go live in October, but "a select few" – one million Harry…
I decided it was time I started blogging about my passion for fantasy literature and shared my views on some of the books I’ve been reading, movies I’ve seen and TV shows I’ve watched. Along with many Harry Potter fans, I’d been intrigued by J.K. Rowling’s announcement of the Pottermore website. Promoted as an "online Harry Potter experience," few details were released. Clearly though, it is a vehicle for Rowling to market the Harry Potter ebooks. JKR shrewdly retained the ebook rights for herself. Hey, I’m a Kindle and ebook lover, so that’s all good with me. If, in addition I get to be Sorted into a Hogwarts House (am I the only person who’d be content to be Sorted into Hufflepuff?) and choose my wand, I’m sold. Additionally, it appears JKR will be contributing a significant amount of new Harry Potter content via Pottermore. She’s talked for some time about publishing a Harry Potter encyclopaedia. It would appear that she has chosen to publish this online rather than in the traditional format. More Potter content? Bring it on, I say. Anyway…. Pottermore is due to go live in October, but "a select few" – one million Harry…