JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, announced that after years of restricting the phenomenally successful series to print-only form, she will now be selling the series as e-books through a website that contains new material.

By Emily Dugan The mystery bidder for J K Rowling's 1.95m book of fairy tales has been revealed as the online bookseller Amazon. The one-off handwritten copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard was sold at Sotheby's on Thursday.

By ALISON CAMPSIE EVEN by her own standards it was a spellbinding show. Another chapter in the JK Rowling legend was completed yesterday after a handwritten and illustrated book of the author's fairytales sold for a record-breaking GBP1.95m at auction in just 10 minutes.

FIRST IT was violins and now it is manuscripts. Writer JK Rowling has joined classical musicians in falling foul of the tough airport regulations on hand luggage.

LONDON (Reuters) - "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling received an honorary law degree from the University of Aberdeen on Thursday to mark her support for research into multiple sclerosis.