{"id":31864,"date":"2009-04-20T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=31864"},"modified":"2009-04-20T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T02:22:08","slug":"hc-turns-middle-earth-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/04\/20\/31864-hc-turns-middle-earth-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"HC turns Middle Earth digital"},"content":{"rendered":"

From thebookseller.com<\/a>: J R R Tolkien will move into the digital age as HarperCollins begins selling his Lord of the Rings series as enhanced e-books.<\/p>\n

As The Bookseller went to press, the publisher said it was planning to issue Tolkien’s entire back catalogue as e-books, beginning with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit and The Children of H\u00farin from today [20th April]. The e-books will include the maps and runes contained in the traditional print books and will be on sale at waterstones.com, harpercollinsebooks.co.uk and tolkien.co.uk. Waterstone’s will have a dedicated author page featuring the e-books from today. <\/p>\n

David Roth-Ey, director of digital business development, said that the launch was the “most significant e-book initiative” the publisher has done so far. He said: “This is something that the fans so clearly wanted. Releasing Tolkien in e-books is something that has long been a goal of ours and we wanted to create high-quality legal versions of these books. It was a long -process\u2014with the maps and runes, it’s slightly more complicated than [digitising] your average thriller.” HC turns Middle Earth digital<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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