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Booker prize goes mobile
Tim Green Aug 21 2008, 10:50am
Clips from the books selected for this year’s Man Booker Prize will be available on mobile.
It’s the first time that any book prize has used mobile technology to promote its shortlist. Mobile site GoSpoken, launched this April at the London International Book Fair, will make the extracts available either to read as text or listen to as audio for free. Readers can then use their mobile to either purchase a hard copy of the book or download the full audio version, if available. This year’s shortlist will be announced on September 9th.
Jonathan Taylor, chairman of The Booker Prize Foundation, said: “After forty years making the headlines in the literary world, it is good that the Man Booker Prize is now also taking a lead in the world of new technology.”
GoSpoken’s founders include author Andy McNab, whose books such as Crisis Four and Aggressor have been consistently overlooked by the Booker judges.
