Times Online is reporting that the new Iain M. Banks novel, Transition, is being serialized for free on iTunes as an abridged audio book:

Iain Banks's latest novel, Transition, is to become the first newly published book to be serialised internationally on iTunes.

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group has agreed a deal with Apple to make an abridged audio version of the novel available as a free podcast.

The first podcast will go live on September 3 when the novel is published. A further 22 episodes, each 15 minutes long, will be released on iTunes in Britain and America every Thursday and Saturday for 12 weeks.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday August 12, 2009 at 12:25 AM
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