With Harry Potter's return these days, one website has stood out above the rest: Pottermore . This is the official Harry Potter website, owned by J.K. Rowling. It holds all the rights to Harry Potter, but most importantly, it's the website that sells Harry Potter books, ebooks, and other merchandise.
In these days many of us have gone to that website to get the latest Harry Potter book or get new materials from the Saga. Although those materials seem that they are not as new as they want us to believe.
But with this, we do not want to show off Pottermore but rather center it as a true editorial example. Many already consider as official the fact that Pottermore is the publisher or publishing business that works with the works of Harry Potter. And it is what I wanted to highlight.
Pottermore could be the future of many writers and the present of many of them
Social media, website creation, and ebook publishing are now accessible to everyone without requiring significant financial investment. This makes them genuine platforms for publishing and promoting ebooks, which can be created by publishers or by the authors themselves.
Pottermore isn't simply a website controlled by J.K. Rowling, since the success of Harry Potter has gone far beyond mere book sales, but that doesn't mean an author can't do something similar . Therefore, it seems the role of the publisher has a different future than it does now, where activities can't be the same as they are now, or at least not all of them.
In many markets, many writers are using these tools to bypass publishers and their commissions , but is it really profitable for the writer? In the long run, publisher commissions aren't as high as what you pay on self-publishing platforms, a mistake many writers make. However, it's also true that some prefer the freedom of self-publishing to the constraints of traditional publishing. Two sides of the same coin, currently generating considerable controversy. But what do you prefer? Self-publishing or traditional publishing? What do you think?