London: JK Rowling's best-selling "Harry Potter" novels are available for the first time in e-book format on the new website dedicated to the boy wizard adventures.
The seven stories, which have sold an estimated 450 million copies worldwide and spawned a successful eight-film movie franchise, went on sale on Tuesday at the Pottermore site set up by Rowling.
The website's online store (shop.pottermore.com) is the exclusive retailer of Harry Potter e-books and digital audio books, which have been launched in English only.
Rowling, who recently announced she was turning to adult fiction, long resisted allowing the Harry Potter stories to be turned into digital format, but eventually decided that technological progress could not be stopped.
The ebook launch raises questions over copyright infringement for the jealously guarded Potter property, although organizers are using a combination of watermarking techniques to protect against illegal copying.
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