Reading in the dark - Free remixable audiobook of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

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Free remixable audiobook of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Here's the announcement from Cory, and you can read my review of the book in the post previous to this one:

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My next novel, Little Brother, officially goes on sale today! In
addition to the US print edition, there's a DRM-free audio edition
(there's also forthcoming editions in the UK, Greece, Russia, France and
Norway, with others pending) from Random House Audio. My deal with
Random House is that they're absolutely not allowed to sell the book
with DRM on it, which, sadly, means that Audible (the largest audiobook
store in the world) won't carry it -- they insist on selling books with
DRM, even when authors and publishers don't want it.

Instead, you can buy the audiobook from Zipidee, a retailer that Random
House uses -- they have the spiffy embeddable Flash sales-object you can
find on Craphound.com (feel free to paste it into your own blog or
whatnot), and there's also a static URL for those of you who can't use
Flash.

The audiobook comes with my own sampling license: once you own it,
you're free to take up to 30 minutes' worth of material from it and
remix and then redistribute it as much as you like, provided that you do
so on a noncommercial basis, make sure that it's clear that this is a
remix and not the original, and make sure that you tell people where to
find the original. This is in addition to all the fair use remixing that
you're allowed to do without my permission (of course!).

I'll also be releasing (as always!) a free, Creative Commons-licensed
version of the text of Little Brother, just as soon as I get back to
London (I'm presently in Toronto, visiting my family with my newborn
daughter). It'll likely be Monday or so -- there's a bunch of little
clean-uppy things I need to do with the Little Brother distribution site
that I need to be in my office with uninterrupted time to accomplish.

Random House's page for Little Brother:
http://www.randomhouse.com/littlebrotheraudiobook

Buy Little Brother audio:
http://www.zipidee.com/zipidAudioPreview.aspx?aid=c5a8e946-fd2c-4b9e-a748-f297bba17de8

Buy Little Brother:
http://us.macmillan.com/Retailer.aspx?isbn=9780765319852
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From:[info]jesse_the_k
Date:April 29th, 2008 08:19 pm (UTC)

You read my mind!

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After your rave review, and Farah's, I'm dying to read this book.

And I was thinking, "mmm, Cory will release it under a C.C. license, I wonder how long it will take before an audio version is up?"

Thanks for the link -- now with telepathy!
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From:[info]kestrell
Date:April 29th, 2008 09:43 pm (UTC)

Re: You read my mind!

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Hey, we have that "more than human" thing down pretty well...
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From:[info]nihilistech
Date:April 29th, 2008 08:48 pm (UTC)
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I don't suppose you've tried downloading the audiobook yet? I'm finding Zipidee.com's site a bit of a chore, and its media downloader/player even more so.
I had actually been planning to wait for the free cc etext, but figured this way I could do the equivalent of buying the more accessible version as well.

But Zipidee isn't cooperating. It sees that I've bought the book, but I can't figure out how to download it.
Pfffft.
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From:[info]kestrell
Date:April 29th, 2008 09:47 pm (UTC)
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No, I haven't tried downloading the audio yet, since I just finished the etext. Seriously, Cory and I exchanged a number of emails about accessible sites, so if you are having trouble, I think you should email him. He responds pretty quickly to email, especially if you put something like "accessibility issue with audio download site" in the subject heading.
In the meanwhilem I can send you the etext version if you want, though the version I have is the pre-publication galley version, which has some typos.
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From:[info]nihilistech
Date:April 29th, 2008 09:58 pm (UTC)
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I'll do that. Thanks for the offer. I'll be good and wait for the official release. :)
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From:[info]kestrell
Date:April 29th, 2008 10:14 pm (UTC)
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*Kestrell contemplates the concepts of "being good" in relation to books and her brain stutters to a halt*
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From:[info]nihilistech
Date:April 29th, 2008 10:22 pm (UTC)
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It helps that I've got a pile of other things I ought to finish reading.
From:[info]blindgeek
Date:April 30th, 2008 11:28 pm (UTC)
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I to am having issues with zipidee and downloading the MP3s. Has anyone here been able to download the files/archive yet?
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From:[info]kestrell
Date:May 1st, 2008 12:12 am (UTC)
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I'm really sorry to hear that. Again, I would suggest you email Cory, as I am certain he will not only make sure to get the audio files to you, but do his best to fix the issue. I can email him if you want, but he really is good at answering email, and I'm sure he will be on top of this issue, pending not being stuck on a plane somewhere.
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