HP Audio Books Soar to Top of iTunes Charts
A quick look the U.S. iTunes AudioBook store reveals that less than 24 hours after the announcement of their release, HP books are ripping up the charts at iTunes. The rankings stand thus, at this moment:
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($49.95)
3.The Complete Harry Potter ($249.00)
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PotterCast Shows Up in Apple Keynote - Jobs a PotterHead? - Also on Apple Store!
More iPod news! And this time it's to do with our own PotterCast.
Today, during the same keynote in which Apple announced all this Harry-Potter-meets-iPod news, keynote speaker and head honcho Steve Jobs gave us a sneak peek into his personal library - where, downloaded,Continued...
Potter Downloads Available on the Cauldron Shop
The newly downloadable Harry Potter books are now available through the Cauldron Shop for the US and the UK, which means you can support the Floo Network of sites, including TLC, by buying through it. The links will take you directly to the book's page in iTunes.
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Random House: Digital HP Books Include DigiBooklet and JKR Readings
Random House sent over the press release on the Harry Potter iTunes release, which reveals that the complete Digital Box Set (all six books, $249.00) includes a full color digital booklet as well as "previously unreleased readings from author J.K. Rowling."
J.K. Rowling: Announces Digital Harry
J.K.Rowling has updated her website with a statement about the release of the Harry Potter books on iTunes. She writes:
"Today sees a new Harry Potter launch: audio digital files are now available through Apple iTunes in the US, Europe and Japan (English language)!Many Harry Potter fans have been keen forContinued...
Apple Unveils PotterPod, Brings Downloadable Harry Potter to iTunes
Yvonne and Caroline let us know that Steve Jobs just announced that all Harry Potter audio books are now available on iTunes, and an engraved iPod with the Hogwarts crest is now available! (Hey, great to listen to PotterCast on! :).
See the new iPod here.
PotterCast Contest and Update
Some quick PotterCast news: we're now listed on Podcast Alley, so if you'd like, you can vote for us! As usual, for all subscription links, visit PotterCast.com.
Also, here are the requested details about the Potter Impersonators Contest: We want to hear your best impersonation of a Harry Potter character. PickContinued...
PotterCast Transcript and Updates
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Thanks to our fantastic Transcription Elves, the transcript of PotterCast #2 is now up!
The third edition of PotterCast, our Potter podcast, will be posted in time for your back-to-work commute on Tuesday. Stay tuned for new fan points of view, an indepth chatContinued...
PotterCast Show #2 Now Available
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The second episode of PotterCast is now available! For subscription visit the links above; for direct download visit our episodes page; for help visit our tutorial.
In this episode:
During the fan interview, MaraudingDon explains to us all why Snape is a foul,Continued...
PotterCast Transcripts Uploaded
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The transcripts to the first PotterCast and the special Potter/MuggleCast are now up! For Show #1, click here; for our special episode with MuggleCast, click here.
The PotterCast transcripts will, from now on, be done for us by the new team of PotterCast TranscriptionContinued...
Special PotterCast/MuggleCast Edition!
There's a new, surprise edition of Leaky's PotterCast and MuggleNet's MuggleCast available tonight. After the latest kerfuffle (the iTunes outCast episode!), we decided to join forcesfor a special tell-all in which we reveal some big secrets: what really happened with iTunes and what we - gaspContinued...
iTunes Takes Potter Podcasts Off-Air
Update: FIXED! You can subscribe again. Looks like it really was just a glitch - THANKYOU guys for writing Apple, and thanks Apple for taking care of it!
Help Getting PotterCast on iTunes
First of all, thanks for your incredible response to our podcast. We never expected to get to the top 10 on iTunes in the first 12 hours of broadcast; we're just having a blast, and can't wait for future shows. We've got a lot planned (and yes, the sound levels will continue to improve).
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PotterCast TidBit Wrapup: Kids to Return for HP5, says Craig
At popular demand, here's a small wrapup of the interview tidbits that were released in the interviews in this week's PotterCast.
-Bonnie Wright spoke about filming movie four and Mike Newell's tendency to explain the big picture and make the very large cast feel part of theContinued...
Leaky Presents... PotterCast! Bonnie Wright, Stuart Craig, You, and a lot more!
We are so proud and excited to finally bring you PotterCast, Leaky's first official podcast!
We have been fooling around with the podcast technology for so long, and wanted to bring this to you long ago but HBP got in our way! That silly book! We can't wait toContinued...