Sunday, October 2, 2011

Tracking an Author

This semester, I will be tracking the famous author J. K. Rowling on my blog - http://kamer001.blogspot.com/

My reason for wanting to track this author is that in June 2011 Rowling announced that she was launching her own website Pottermore.com, which she describes as an "online reading experience unlike any other," and that the website will be built in part by the readers. The website will include: interactive activities (wand choosing, potion making, learning spells, sorting into a Hogwarts House, etc), additional information about the Harry Potter world that Rowling has kept to herself for years, and e-reader versions of the Harry Potter series available for the first time ever. General asccess to the website will be available in October 2011. The list of things that I plan to track are sale volumes of the electronic versions of her books, use of social media (updates on Facebook, Twitter, etc), general news, and updates on the website itself (when the e-books are available and whether all will be available at once or one at a time, new interactive activities, new plot lines and whether they were written by Rowling or by fans/readers, news updates, etc).Link

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1 Comments:

Blogger Laura said...

Wow, brilliant idea! I'm a huge Harry Potter fan, wish I'd thought of this!

October 3, 2011 at 1:07 PM  

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