J.Ok. Rowling Presents Free Harry Potter Books, Launches ‘Harry Potter at Residence’ Digital Hub

Harry Potter writer J.Ok. Rowling is providing free audiobooks and ebooks to the primary novel in her collection, “Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone”, all through April, to assist households in lockdown in the course of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Moreover, Rowling has additionally launched a brand new digital hub referred to as “Harry Potter at Residence”. Every week on “Wizarding Wednesdays”, it can supply a spread of actions, quizzes, and different issues to do, like how to attract a Niffler — the Implausible Beasts creature interested in shiny issues. And each Friday, you will get new concepts in your inbox with an e-mail e-newsletter, in the event you join.

The free audiobook model of Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone will likely be out there on Audible’s newly-launched Audible Tales in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Japanese, with the English-language model narrated by Stephen Fry. Higher but, you do not even want an Audible account to pay attention. As for the e-book, you possibly can borrow it without spending a dime in over 20 totally different languages from a collaborating native or college library, at digital library provider OverDrive, by way of its Libby app.

Rowling mentioned in a ready assertion: “The academics, dad and mom, and carers working to maintain youngsters’s lives as regular and glad as attainable whereas we’re all on lockdown deserve a little bit of magic. I hope these initiatives will give youngsters and even adults a cheerful distraction throughout their enforced stay-at-home time.”

“The Harry Potter books have all the time been a refuge, consolation and escape for readers, and proper now, we want studying for pleasure greater than ever,” J.Ok. Rowling’s company, The Blair Partnership, founder Neil Blair mentioned. “Many households will have already got a Harry Potter e-book at house, however I am delighted that we will now present free on-line entry to the audio and e-book of the primary e-book within the collection, by Audible and libraries, for all to take pleasure in, in addition to a improbable new digital hub for households with youthful youngsters to assist them by these troublesome instances.”

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