Harry Potter companion books, Quidditch through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, are now available as e-books in the Pottermore Shop.  J.K. Rowling wrote these books back in 2001 to help raise money for Comic Relief, the e-books will still benefit the charity.  According to the Pottermore Insider:

These two additions are essential for readers keen on indulging their interest in the game of Quidditch and expanding their knowledge of magical creatures. They can now be found in the new collection on the Pottermore Shop – Hogwarts Library Books

Quidditch through the Ages, by Kennilworthy Whisp, is one of the most popular titles in the Hogwarts school library. Now you can learn about Quidditch history too. Would you like to know about some of the seven hundred Quidditch fouls that have taken place? Or learn about the more difficult Quidditch moves? Then this is the book for you.

Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander, is a duplicate of Harry Potter’s own copy and provides a useful guide to both the mundane and the more unusual magical creatures found in the wizarding world. It comes complete with additional informative notes from Harry and his friends.

Both texts are currently available as part of your eBook collection in English (US and UK editions), and all proceeds from the purchases of these eBooks from the Pottermore Shop will be donated to Comic Relief.

For those of you that haven’t logged into your Pottermore accounts today, the Pottermore insider blog has announced that the first chapters of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets are now available for exploration!

There’s plenty to discover and enjoy: read more exclusive writing from J.K. Rowling; view The Burrow for the first time, de-gnome the garden and collect your second-year shopping list, along with more Galleons, for another visit to Diagon Alley.

Please be aware that all Pottermore students will be able to purchase their second year school books from Diagon Alley, as of tomorrow.

The Chamber of Secrets is being launched in three installments; with the next installment following in the coming weeks. We will keep you updated on the Pottermore Insider, as well as the Pottermore Gateway and the house noticeboards.

Pottermore has updated their Insider blog to let users know that Slytherin House won the House Cup and will be able to access Chamber of Secrets 24 hours before the rest of the houses.

Their Site Updates section has also been updated with more news on Chamber of Secrets:

Monday 09 July
Chamber of Secrets update:
This week, we are recording sounds for Chapter Sixteen, The Chamber of Secrets.

Tuesday 03 July
Chamber of Secrets update:
This week, we’re finalising artwork for Chapter Eight, The Deathday Party.

Monday 25 June
Chamber of Secrets update:
This week, we’re finalising artwork for Chapter Seven, Mudbloods and Murmurs, and Chapter Fifteen, Aragog.

Monday 18 June
Chamber of Secrets update:
This week, we’re finalising artwork for Chapter Fourteen, Cornelius Fudge.

Monday 11 June
Chamber of Secrets update:
Last week, we were editing sounds in the studio for the Chamber of Secrets and we’re now working on finishing artwork for Chapter Eleven, The Duelling Club.

The Pottermore Insider blog has been updated to let fans know that they will be holding a House Cup to make the Pottermore experience more like the books. The house with the most points will win the Pottermore House Cup!  They have also announced that each house now has a noticeboard!

Your house noticeboard can be found in your house’s common room on Pottermore – make sure you visit to stay up to date with the latest house news as we begin the countdown to the announcement of the Pottermore House Cup winner.

The Pottermore Insider blog has been updated letting fans know the status of the Chamber of Secrets.  The update is as follows:

Last week, we recorded audio for the Chamber of Secrets Moments. We’re really pleased with how things went and are now editing the sounds. As well as finishing off Chapter Three, The Burrow, we’re currently tweaking the artwork for Chapter Sixteen, The Chamber of Secrets.

The Bookseller has a new interview with Pottermore CEO, Charlie Redmayne, and he discusses the amazing interest in the Harry Potter eBooks which were released a month ago.  The books made £1 million in the first 3 days and £3m in the first month.  He also revealed that fans still have a ways to wait for Chamber of Secrets saying that it is still “weeks away.” They will, however, be adding new features to the site for fans to enjoy. “It’s a fantastic experience, but not yet as good as its going to be. We are working on book two now, I’m very pleased with some of the pages I’ve seen, and it will be coming as soon as possible.”

He has the following to say about the affect of the ebooks on piracy,

[…] sales of the physical copies of the seven titles had also increased, and that because of the site’s light-touch Digital Rights Management, piracy had diminished. “Obviously there were fears piracy would increase as a result of being DRM-free, and that sales of the e-books would cannibalise sales of the physical titles, but we were delighted to see sales of the physical books go up, and piracy come down.” Redmayne said that though there had been an increase in piracy immediately after launch, the community had rejected these illegal versions because of how the e-books were brought to market. “We have demonstrated that if you make these books available in the way that people want them, and on a platform that is accessible to them, and at a price they are happy with, then then generally people will chose to buy them.”

Of the weird launch time, Redmayne said: “Given how we launched it, at 8.15 in the morning when most people were asleep, almost anti-marketing it, we were very pleased. It has been amazingly successful and shows the power of the Harry Potter brand.” Some statistics on the site have also been revealed:

• Pottermore, the Harry Potter experience, has seen 22 million visits from 7 million unique users in its first two weeks, generating more than 1 billion page impressions, with the average user visiting 47 pages, spending 25 minutes on the site.
• Redmayne said there had been 4.2m attempts to make potions, with a success rate of just 32%.
• In those first two weeks there had been 39.9m “wizard duels” with the “full body bind” spell the most popular, and “pimple jinx” the least used.
• After two weeks 5m new users had registered, with perhaps half of those already sorted into houses, such as Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.