Today the Pottermore Insider announced a big update concerning its website.
The beta period is being extended for an unknown amount of time, and no additional users will be let in until the beta is over.
After looking closely at all the information that we’ve gathered, we have decided to further extend the Beta period so we can improve Pottermore before giving more people access. This means the site will not be opening to new users in the immediate future, but please know that we will open registration as soon as we can.
As part of our work to make Pottermore even better, we’ll be taking the site down for a few days on Wednesday 2 November. We’re going to use this time to make a few technical changes behind-the-scenes.
So Pottermore will not be opening to new users just yet. For all of you who are waiting to enter Pottermore, we want to thank you for being so patient – we’re working very hard to make some exciting improvements, and we’re really looking forward to welcoming you to the site when it’s ready.
Disappointing? Good news? Surprising? We think this almost certainly means the site won’t be officially opening until 2012.
On September 30th Pottermore announced registration would be opened to everyone (although this wouldn’t immediately grant you access like originally planned), and the eBook portion of the site would not open until 2012. Obviously there were decisions in the past month that made them delay the beta.