Harry Potter Digital Audiobooks Debut Exclusively on iTunes Music Store

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Press Release Source: Apple Computer, Inc. 

Harry Potter Digital Audiobooks Debut Exclusively on iTunes Music Store
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Wednesday September 7, 1:52 pm ET 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple(r) today
announced that the entire Harry Potter audiobook series is now available
exclusively on the iTunes(r) Music Store, the world's number one online
music service. For the first time ever, every audiobook in the series,
including the latest release, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,"
is available as a digital download from iTunes. Customers can either
download individual audiobooks or the complete Harry Potter Digital Box
Set which includes a full color digital booklet as well as previously
unreleased readings from author J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter fans can also
purchase the complete Harry Potter Digital Box Set together with a
Collector's Edition 20GB iPod(r) engraved with the Hogwarts crest.

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The complete Harry Potter Digital Box Set is equivalent to almost 100 CDs,
but customers can purchase this entire audiobook collection with just one
click and then transfer all six books onto their iPod to take with them
wherever they go.

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Individual audiobooks from the Harry Potter series are priced from $32.95
to $49.95 (US), and the Harry Potter Digital Box Set is $249 (US).
Purchase and download of songs and audiobooks from the iTunes Music Store
for Mac or Windows requires a valid credit card with a billing address in
the country of purchase.

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825