Pottermore Fails Again

Little Kat is about to visit his dad for the summer. He is going with his Amazon Kindle reader. This is supposed to allow him to read books without lugging them around. He decided he wanted to read Harry Potter book 1 this summer.

I searched Amazon. Found the Kindle edition of Harry Potter on sale for $7.99. I let Little Kat make his Kindle purchases. So I ordered an Amazon gift card for the amount. Little Kat declared that he could not purchase the book. WTF? Turns out Amazon does not directly offer Harry Potter books. They refer you to the Pottermore web site.

Pottermore is apparently J.K. Rowling's web site. You have to enter your credit card info separately on that site. It does not accept Amazon gift cards. Fail. Amazon should stop referring readers to this site. It is a fraud and a fail.

Luckily Little Kat has a lot of other interests. He got a Kindle version of The Hunger Games. He also purchased a copy of "The Giver". Never heard of that book myself. Now Momoko needs a print copy of The Give to read along with Little Kat.