Charlie Redmayne, CEO of Pottermore, announced this week at a keynote speech at the
Frankfort Book Fair that the final chapters of
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets will be published sometime later this month.
A slideshow of some of Redmayne's future plans for Pottermore (including the last seven chapters of
Chamber of Secrets opening, noted on slide 14), and how it would integrate with the rest of
Harry Potter-related media, including working with Playstation on Book of Spells and of course Warner Bros, can be seen below. We hope to have information regarding many of these potential new ideas for
Harry Potter expansion, including the physical products in collaboration with Warner Bros for Pottermore.
“Most publishers see digital publishing as creating e-books or, perhaps, enhanced e-books, but Pottermore looked at every single platform—e-books, browser-based experiences, social network, apps, game consoles, in-flight entertainment, YouTube, and educational platforms—to see if and how it could work for our brand,” said Redmayne. “Publishers have often thought that filmmakers or gaming companies have the rights to the more valuable properties, but we have the rights to the stories and that has immense value.”
“When she was writing the books, [J.K.] created an immense imaginable world and the books are really narrow passageway through that world,” said Redmayne.