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[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

Here's the competition site, via Boing Boing:

http://www.penguinremixed.co.uk/site/rmx_main.php

- Rob.

 
On Sunday, May 01, 2005, at 10:35AM, David M. Berry <D.Berry AT sussex.ac.uk> 
wrote:

>
>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
>-------------
>
>
>hear penguin ? sample penguin ? remix penguin
>
>
>
>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.
>
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