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.”
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Sam Ruff translated Little Brother into Pig Latin!
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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.
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!
Wesley Stroupe made this neat visualization of the tag cloud from Little Brother.
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:
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.
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.
Ralph Amissah converted a couple of my books to his really exciting format SiSu. SiSu uses simple human-reabable markup and auto-creates several ebook formats, including PDFs, HTML, Docx, Epub, and plain old .txt (my fave!). I’ve really been looking for an easy way to “single-source” my books from manuscript to finished files, and this looks like a good candidate. Check out the conversions:
The SiSu converter is free/open and runs well on my Ubuntu Linux machine.
I’m delighted to announce that Little Brother is a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader’s Choice Award, “the oldest children’s choice award in the U.S. and Canada.” Not only that, it’s in stupendous company — be sure to follow the link and check out the list of nominees!
