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With the final Harry¹ Potter movie premiering next week, fans of the wizard may be wondering where to go next.

Well, on 31 July – Harry Potter's birthday – the website Pottermore will go live.

The site will allow users to "rediscover" the Harry Potter saga².

Author J.K. Rowling has also said she has new material about Harry Potter's world to add to the experience. But the site isn't just a free 'thank-you' to fans.

It will also feature a shop where users will be able to buy eBook and digital audiobook versions of the best-sellers. They will be published through Rowling's Pottermore Publishing company, which owns the digital rights.

Print media has been kind to J.K. Rowling. The Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies through Bloomsbury in Britain and Scholastic³ in the USA. So has it been difficult for her to move away from "dead-tree" media?

She said: "The format⁴ isn't particularly important to me. I am a big fan of print and paper... But very very recently this year for the first time, I downloaded eBooks and I was travelling, and it was a godsend."

Writing on the Digital Spy website, Mayer Nissim dismisses the site as "a pretty eBook store with a monopoly on selling Potter books. With sales of Kindles⁶ and iPads going through the roof, it's a pretty lucrative⁷ market."

But Pottermore is still sure to please many a potty Potter fan. It will launch in October, but a million users will be allowed to join in July.

Quiz 小测验

1. Will the Pottermore website be launched before or after the final Potter film? 

Afterwards, at the end of July. The final Potter film will be premiered next week.

2. How will the Pottermore website make money? 

Users will be able to buy eBooks and digital audiobooks.

3. Did J.K. Rowling have to get permission from her publishers to sell the eBooks? 

No. She owns the digital rights to the material.

4. Look at the article. What is a noun meaning a long story or a series of books? 

Saga

5. Look at the article. What is a noun for a book which sells very well? 

Best-seller

Glossary⁸ 词汇表

to premiere 初次上演，首映 

to go live 上线 

saga 长篇小说或小说集 

eBook 电子书 

digital audiobook 有声电子书 

best-seller 畅销书 

digital rights 电子版权 

print media 印刷媒体 

"dead tree" media 对印刷媒体的幽默称呼 

format 版式，形式 

to download something 下载什么东西 

godsend 上帝所赐 

to dismiss something 认为不值一谈 

a monopoly on something 对什么的垄断 

Kindle⁵ 亚马逊金读电子阅读器 

iPad 苹果公司的平板电脑 

with sales... going through the roof 销售量超高 

a lucrative market 利润丰厚的市场 

potty （口语）有点疯狂的，愚蠢的 

to launch 新产品的出版，推出

1 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

2 saga   

n.(尤指中世纪北欧海盗的)故事，英雄传奇

参考例句：

• The saga of Flight 19 is probably the most repeated story about the Bermuda Triangle.飞行19中队的传说或许是有关百慕大三角最重复的故事。
• The novel depicts the saga of a family.小说描绘了一个家族的传奇故事。

3 scholastic   

adj.学校的，学院的，学术上的

参考例句：

• There was a careful avoidance of the sensitive topic in the scholastic circles.学术界小心地避开那个敏感的话题。
• This would do harm to students' scholastic performance in the long run.这将对学生未来的学习成绩有害。

4 format   

n.设计，版式；[计算机]格式，DOS命令:格式化(磁盘)，用于空盘或使用过的磁盘建立新空盘来存储数据；v.使格式化，设计，安排

参考例句：

• Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
• The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。

5 kindle   

v.点燃，着火

参考例句：

• This wood is too wet to kindle.这木柴太湿点不着。
• A small spark was enough to kindle Lily's imagination.一星光花足以点燃莉丽的全部想象力。

6 kindles   

（使某物）燃烧，着火( kindle的第三人称单数 )； 激起（感情等）； 发亮，放光

参考例句：

• And as kindles hope, millions more will find it. 他们的自由又将影响周围，使更多的人民得到自由。
• A person who stirs up trouble or kindles a revolt. 煽动叛乱者，挑动争端者挑起麻烦或引起叛乱的人。

7 lucrative   

adj.赚钱的，可获利的

参考例句：

• He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
• It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。

8 glossary   

n.注释词表；术语汇编

参考例句：

• The text is supplemented by an adequate glossary.正文附有一个详细的词汇表。
• For convenience,we have also provided a glossary in an appendix.为了方便，我们在附录中也提供了术语表。