MTV News Correspondent Josh Horowitz brings us the latest development in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them news: Just caught up w/David Heyman @ GRAVITY premiere. He will indeed be producing Harry Potter spinoff FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM. ” Josh Horowitz (@joshuahorowitz) October 1, 2013 Heyman, who produced all eight of …read more!

J.K. Rowling will be in attendance at a special event to launch her new novel, The Casual Vacancy, on September 27 at London’s Southbank Centre. Ms. Rowling will read a passage from the book before taking part in a conversation with journalist and author Mark Lawson and answering questions from the audience. A book signing …read more!

The Pottermore Insider has announced that the Harry Potter eBooks are now available to purchase in Japanese. The Japanese editions of the Harry Potter eBooks are published in EPUB3 format and can be read on any EPUB3 device or reading service, with Japanese font enabled. Pottermore.com does not currently have Japanese enabled as one of …read more!

Bloomsbury wants to know: are you the biggest Harry Potter fan? The British publisher of the Harry Potter series is hosting a competition to find the biggest fan in the U.K. and Ireland. Fans will only be able to enter the competition by submitting an entry though participating bookshops and libraries. More than 1,800 venues …read more!

Bloomsbury, this morning, confirmed and released the first look at the Hogwarts Library Boxed Set we first learned about yesterday. The books will be hardcover editions on the three previously published Hogwarts school books, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” “Quidditch Through the Ages,” and “Tales of Beedle the Bard.” Check out an image …read more!

According to BBC News, a group of more than 60 scholars have congregated at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland to discuss the literary merits of the Harry Potter series over the next two days. The conference, entitled “A Brand of Fictional Magic: Reading Harry Potter as Literature,” will feature over 50 lectures about …read more!

All seven Harry Potter books by author J. K. Rowling will soon be available on Amazon.com’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, where owners of the eBook device can borrow select titles right to their Kindle device without actually purchasing the book. Set to be available June 19th, Amazon.com will be releasing the books in multiple languages, …read more!

The recently opened Pottermore Shop is reporting that during the first three days they were in operation they made 1 million pounds from the sales of the Harry Potter e-books:style=” background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); “>style=” background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); “> “We had budgeted for a much lower figure, I had looked at the …read more!

The official Pottermore shop was launched this morning, marking the first time that the Harry Potter books are available to buy in an eBook and digital audio book format. This will be the only place to purchase digital copies of the Harry Potter series, which will be available in all formats for eReaders, tablets, smartphones …read more!

Pottermore and OverDrive, “a leading distributor for the school and library market,” have entered into an agreement that will allow the entire Harry Potter series to be freely available to students and library patrons: OverDrive director of marketing David Burleigh said the e-books and audiobooks are not yet available, though libraries and schools can pre-order …read more!