{"id":256906,"date":"2007-10-18T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T13:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/10\/18\/booker-books-for-everyone\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:17","slug":"booker-books-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/10\/18\/booker-books-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker Books for Everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a very interesting—and sure to be controversial—move, plans are underway to make all Booker shortlisted novels available online for free<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Negotiations are under way with the British Council and publishers over digitising the novels and reaching parts – particularly in Africa and Asia – that the actual books would not otherwise reach.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jonathan Taylor, chairman of The Booker Prize Foundation, said that the initiative was well advanced, although details were still being thrashed out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The downloads will not impact on sales, it is thought. If readers like a novel tasted on the internet, they may just be inspired to buy the actual book.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Robin Robertson from Jonathan Cape likened this idea to the latest Radiohead project<\/a> allowing listeners to decide how much to pay for the available download of the new album. Great idea, but this scares me:<\/p>\n

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An internet survey of 3,000 people who downloaded the album found that most paid an average of \u00a34, although others claiming to have paid more than \u00a340.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s $80 for a Radiohead album! C’mon kids, don’t go crazy . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a very interesting—and sure to be controversial—move, plans are underway to make all Booker shortlisted novels available online for free: Negotiations are under way with the British Council and publishers over digitising the novels and reaching parts – particularly in Africa and Asia – that the actual books would not otherwise reach. Jonathan Taylor, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[7166,1836,586],"class_list":["post-256906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-booker-prize","tag-cwp","tag-future-of-the-book"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361646,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256906\/revisions\/361646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}