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Iranian activists release free Persian Little Brother

A group of Iranian activists abroad and in Iran have produced a professional translation of my novel Little Brother and have released it online with the hope that it will be of interest to Iran's online activists. I've written an introduction to the edition on online activism and dissidence. It was a volunteer-led project, but they paid the translator (whose identity is a not publicly disclosed at this time), and are asking for donations to help defray the cost.

We are pleased to announce that the first version of the Persian edition of "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow is available for download now.

The translation of the book is licensed under the Creative Commons Atrribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Little Brother (in English) can be downloaded for free from Cory's website.

Please send us your comments to littlebrother.fa@gmail.com.

Little Brother Persian Edition version 1.0 Released!

Interview with Haaretz on Hebrew Little Brother edition

Here's an interview I conducted with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on the occasion of the Hebrew publication of Little Brother.

בראיון טלפוני עמו מתגלה דוקטורוב כאדם חריף ומהיר מחשבה. הוא מודה כי הוא לחוץ במעט מאחר שעליו להשלים כתיבה של שני ספרים אבל הדבר לא מונע ממנו לענות תשובות מנומקות.

כשהוא נשאל כיצד הוא אמור להתפרנס מספרו אם הוא ניתן להורדה חינם באינטרנט, הוא עונה כי "בכך שאני מאפשר הפצת ספרים בחינם יותר קוראים פוטנציאליים נחשפים אליהם. כפי שטים אוריילי (פעיל בתנועות למען קוד פתוח, א"ש) נוהג לומר, הסכנה לאמן היא לא פיראטיות, אלא אנונימיות".

Summer Hacking School based on Little Brother

Neale sez, "I liked Little Brother so much that I bought a copy for my niece and then based an entire Summer Hacking School around it. The kids were really excited about the premise of the book when I explained it to them tonight, and the fact that it's available for free in so many
formats was just gravy. I put ePub and j2me versions on 5 mobile phones before they left for the night."

Pig Latin Little Brother

Sam Ruff translated Little Brother into Pig Latin!

I'mway away eniorsay atway Esarcay Avezchay ighhay inway Ansay
Ancisco'sfray unnysay Issionmay istrictday, andway atthay
akesmay emay oneway ofway ethay ostmay urveilledsay eoplepay
inway ethay orldway. Ymay amenay isway Arcusmay Allowyay, utbay
ackbay enwhay isthay orystay artsstay, Iway asway oinggay ybay
way1nay5tay0nay. Onouncedpray "Instonway."

*Otnay* onouncedpray "Oubleday-ouyay-oneway-ennway-ivefay-eetay-
erozay-ennway" -- unlessway ou'reyay away uelessclay
isciplinaryday officerway o'swhay arfay enoughway ehindbay ethay
urvecay atthay ouyay illstay allcay ethay Internetway "ethay
informationway uperhighwaysay."

Iway owknay ustjay uchsay away uelessclay ersonpay, andway ishay
amenay isway Edfray Ensonbay, oneway ofway eethray icevay-
incipalspray atway Esarcay Avezchay. E'shay away uckingsay
estchay oundway ofway away umanhay eingbay. Utbay ifway ou'reyay
oinggay otay avehay away ailerjay, etterbay away uelessclay
oneway anthay oneway o'swhay eallyray onway ethay allbay.

Burmese Little Brother covers

More news on the activist translations of Little Brother into Burmese languages: the activists at Digital Democracy who used Kickstarter to fund translations into several indigenous Burmese languages have released a set of covers, and they are made of win.

Little Brother paperback is a bestseller

The US paperback of Little Brother just came out and is entering its second week on the National Independent Bestseller list! Thanks to everyone who supported the book -- I'm over the moon!

Curved Little Brother tag-cloud

Wesley Stroupe made this neat visualization of the tag cloud from Little Brother.

Honors for the Little Brother paperback

The paperback of Little Brother is out, and it's already started to attract some top honors. My publicist at Tor just sent the following::

* I am pleased to announce that LITTLE BROTHER by Cory Doctorow has been nominated for the 2011 Young Readers Choice Award, the oldest children’s choice award and sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association (www.pnla.org).

*The New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age” has been renamed “Stuff for the Teen Age” and as such LITTLE BROTHER by Cory Doctorow has made the list under the category “For Guys”.

* Nominated for the ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2011 list: Crime Scene Category:

Student cover for Little Brother

Jeannie Harrell, a student at Emerson College, was assigned to create a book jacket and interior for a course on book design. Because my novel Little Brother is available under a Creative Commons license, she was able to grab the text and do a new interior, as well as designing and publishing her own (outstanding!) cover. I really like what she came up with. Even if CC didn't sell more books for me (which it seems to be doing!), I'd still use the licenses, because this kind of thing really, really makes me happy.

Little Brother

Choose Privacy: video from the American Library Assoc

Choose Privacy Week Video from 20K Films on Vimeo.

The American Library Association's "Choose Privacy" week kicks off with a ~20 minute video featuring writers and thinkers talking about the value of privacy in simple, accessible, thought-provoking terms. Included are me, Neil Gaiman, and many others. Produced by Laura Zinger and 20K films, it's a really fine little introduction to subject from the towering heroes of the information revolution: the librarians.

Choose Privacy Week Video

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