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Harry Potter website Pottermore sold $4.8 million (£3 million) worth of e-books in its first month — that works out to around 525,000 copies — and has nearly 7 million unique users, CEO Charlie Redmayne tells The Bookseller. Sales of the Harry Potter print books have increased, too.
Pottermore launched its e-bookstore, the exclusive place to buy Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks, on March 27 and opened the rest of the interactive Harry Potter universe to the public on April 14. Since then, Redmayne says, Pottermore has added 5 million new users, for a total of 7 million unique users in the first two weeks. The average user visits 47 pages and spends 25 minutes on the site.
That’s about 525,000 books
The Harry Potter e-books are priced at $7.99 each (for the first three) or $9.99 each (for the final four books in the series). (Discounted bundles of all…
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The plot seems to be thickening at AOL (s aol), at least when it comes to Arianna Huffington’s role at the former portal. She confirmed to the Wall Street Journalthat her role within the company has been reduced, something that was the subject of much speculation after a New York Times story last month said her power base had actually increased and also revealed later that private-equity firms have approached her about taking HuffPost private. But how would the site fare if it was removed from AOL’s grasp? And if that did happen, would it be the beginning of the end for the faded Web giant?
The New York Times piece in April portrayed the changes in Huffington’s role as largely positive, with a headline that said, “Huffington gains more control in AOL revamping” and noted she had been given back the control over various aspects of Huffington…
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