Apple has managed to secure the entire Harry Potter audiobook series. Available exclusively on the iTunes Music Store now, every audiobook in the series is including - even the brand-new 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'.

You can either download individual audiobooks or the complete Harry Potter Digital Box Set, which includes a full colour 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 engraved with the Hogwarts crest.

The complete Harry Potter Digital Box Set is equivalent to almost 100 CDs, but you can purchase this entire audiobook collection with just one click and then transfer all six books onto your digital audio player (including the iPoad) to take with you wherever you go.

Up to now, The Harry Potter audiobook series from Listening Library (a division of the Random House Audio Publishing Group) has been available only on CD and cassette. It is by far the best selling series in the history of audiobook publishing, with the six books selling over 5 million copies.

The narrator of all six books available in North America, Jim Dale, won a Grammy award in 2000 for 'Best Spoken Word' as well as earned three Grammy nominations for his work on the series. The audiobook series is available online for the first time exclusively on iTunes.

With Apple's legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as integrated Podcasting support, iMix playlist sharing, seamless integration with iPod and groundbreaking personal use rights, the iTunes Music Store is the best way for Mac® and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music online. The iTunes Music Store features two million songs from the major music companies and over 1,000 independent record labels, 10,000 audiobooks, gift certificates and exclusive music not found anywhere else online.

Individual audiobooks from the Harry Potter series are priced from $32.95 to $49.95, and the Harry Potter Digital Box Set is $249. 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.

BIOS, Sep 09, 05 | Print | Send | Comments (0) | Posted In Audio