Oh my Rowling!

[Freya]

Oh JK what are you doing?

Pottermore.com is some new thing JK is setting up. But what is it?

The site, Pottermore.com, is a new project for the "Harry Potter" author, spokeswoman Rebecca Salt said Thursday. The site is "not a new book" and "not directly related" to the final Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," which comes out next month, she said.
"We aren't saying any more than that!" Salt said.
"Pottermore" was trademarked in 2009 by Warner Bros., which distributes the Potter movies. The trademark description of Pottermore suggests an interactive site "providing on-line chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards" and "on-line facilities for real-time interaction with other computer users concerning topics of general interest."
The site itself reveals little beyond a scrawled message from the author that reads "Coming soon ...". Rowling already has a personal website, at J.K.Rowling Official Site - Harry Potter and more.
Pottermore.com also has a Twitter account, twitter.com/pottermore, and a YouTube countdown clock, which projects an author announcement for early Thursday, June 23.
News of Pottermore.com emerged Wednesday night with messages sent to nine Potter fan sites and an official Potter Twitter account. Each site received one letter, the letters spelling out "pottermore." A leading Potter fan site, http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org, alleges that it has seen "a preview of Pottermore and it is, in a word, breathtaking."
"That is all we are permitted to say at the moment."

From yahoo news

There's a youtube channel too that gives a countdown.

WHAT ARE YOU UP TO ROWLING?!

[Bunny]

I bet you it has something to do with ty writing.

[Shlup]

I bet you it makes her millions of dollars.

[Bunny]

That just means people are stupid, not that she's any good.

Good for her though, capitalizing on the stupidity of others.

[Freya]

Mr. Professor Doctor Bunnikins, YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

[Shlup]

I wouldn't know, I haven't read the books. I like the movies though.

[Bunny]

Mr. Professor Doctor Bunnikins, YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

Fine, sorry. She's a bad person for capitalizing on the stupidity of others.

[Laddy]

I'm glad to see Bunny is still trying to troll. Quite humorous.

[Bunny]

I'm glad to see that most people still misuse the word troll in association with me. It's quite humorous.

Psst. Trolls deliberately say things they don't believe in order to get a reaction from certain individuals. I have never once said something that I did not actually believe. Not my fault I speak my mind instead of candy coating my lies to make everyone feel like happy balls of sunshine.

[Laddy]

Great. Then you're just silly, then.

[Pheesh]

Lol, no one cares that you don't like J.K. Rowling, bunny.

I doubt this will be anything interesting though, if anything she'll probably use this to announce a new book she's writing (not Harry Potter). It better not be a Harry Potter book, at least. Because the appeal of that series was growing up with the characters and the gradual maturing and eventual dark direction they took the series in. We got the books, the next batch of kids got the movies (poor bastards), to just throw him into adulthood or something else would be pointless. If it's a new book then I'll see what it's about and then decide if I want to read it (even though I'll probably end up reading it anyway -_-)

[rubah]

It'll be the "Scottish Book" which isn't to say, a potter encyclopedia.

[Freya]

It's not a new book. Watch it be some online multi-player game.

[Shiny]

He's just bitter because she's making that cash money. J.K. Rowling definitely isn't Chaucer, but she's not Stephanie Myer either. She can write well enough for the age group she is writing for and is lucky that her literature has translated well to film$.

[Pheesh]

A Harry Potter mmo would be blegh, and I doubt JK Rowling would have this big a role in the marketing if it didn't have something to do with literature.