J.K. Rowling Still A Technophobe, No Harry Potter VII eBook

With the impending feeding frenzy that is the June 21 launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Clearosol" [Deathly Hallows -Ed] the rather rich author J.K. Rowling has said that she detests eBooks and will not allow the ePublication of the final Potter book.

None of the Harry Potter books have been published as an eBook, not because it doesn’t make financial sense but because the author believes that everyone would then steal her books ; and besides, people are better off reading books on old fashioned paper, she told the Assosiated Press.

To the first concern, it might be worth noting that pirates had a working copy of the last Harry Potter book online within 12 hours of its launch. Besides, nobody has been listening to Steve Jobs and DRM is very much still a factor in our lives.

To the second concern, well stuff her then. Err, I mean, who’s to say how I should be reading my books ? Sony released a very nice eBook Reader, thankyouverymuch, and I’d just as well read about Harry Potter’s in-law troubles there as anywhere.

Besides, for the technophobic Rowling - who still writes in long hand on lined paper - it might be worth mentioning that a not inconsiderable part of her estimated £576 million ($1.13 billion, there or thereabouts) wealth comes from licensed video games.