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["David M. Berry" <D.Berry AT sussex.ac.uk>]

I have just been contacted by Penguin, the book publishers, about  
their launch of a remix competition. Not much in details and no info  
on the licensing but I thought it could have been (might be/is) a  
brilliant place for Creative Commons to get involved. Let me know if  
you want more info..

cheers

David
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On May 9th Penguin launches Penguin Remixed an innovative competition  
which
invites musicians, professional and amateur, the opportunity to  
sample some of the
best lines in literature to create new tunes. Audio samples from  
thirty Penguin titles
will be available for download from the www.penguinremixed.co.uk  
website and
entrants will be invited to submit their tracks to win MP3 players,  
subscriptions to
Audible’s digital audiobookstore and the top prize of publication in  
a Penguin digital
audiobook.

“We think that this competition is going to excite musicians and  
interest music and
book lovers, all of whom will be able to vote for their favourite  
tracks. New digital
technologies make it terrifically easy for anyone with a computer to  
create music and
gives us as publishers great opportunities both to offer new content  
and reach new
audiences,” said Penguin’s audio and ebook publisher, Jeremy  
Ettinghausen, “We’re
excited about the launch of digital audiobooks and we hope that this  
new format is
going to draw new listeners to our audio publishing.”

Penguin Remixed also highlights the range of audio publishing from  
Penguin,
drawing on material as diverse as Spot the Dog, the James Bond  
stories and Charles
Dickens. “In Penguin’s 70th year it’s fantastic to be able to  
demonstrate the breadth of
our current and past audio publishing.  Obviously we’ve got some of  
the classic lines
of literature read by some of the best actors of the day, but there  
are wonderful,
music-friendly quotes in all sorts of unexpected places, such as  
Alain de Botton’s
STATUS ANXIETY and Pen Hadow’s remarkable story of polar  
exploration” said
Ettinghausen.

[The Penguin Remixed website will be launched on 9 May.]