Penguin Announces Launch 6of3 Website to Support Release of New Hitchhikers Novel

Posted on September 14, 2009 by John DeNardo in Books, Web Sites // 0 Comments

Block Interactive and Penguin have announced the launch of www.6of3.com, a website promoting next month’s publication of And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer, the 6th book in the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.

The user-activity-focused website features:

A user community
A Tweet the Galaxy (where fans can “ask the answer to the great question of life”, then, On October 12th (the 30th anniversary of the original release of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, all tweets will be transmitted into Deep Space)
A competition involving fans uploading 42-second videos to YouTube
A Vogon Constructor Fleet Training flash game
Book info and upcoming book-related events

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