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Frankly I’m surprised they got the publishers to agree to do this, given that industry’s consistent lack of understand of digital media. Of course I’ve never really met a Man Booker novel I actually liked, but hey maybe the shortlist has some worthy candidates that got over looked. From the Times Online:

The Man Booker Prize has been criticized over the years for selecting dark, unreadable and worthy tomes unlike the winners of other more populist literary prizes.

Now, in the week that Anne Enright became its 2007 winner, it is shaking off criticisms of being elitist and out of touch by taking the radical step of placing all its shortlisted novels online, available free to anyone worldwide.

Negotiations are under way with the British Council and publishers over digitizing the novels and reaching parts — particularly in Africa and Asia — that the actual books would not otherwise reach.

No word on when or where these mysterious downloads will appear.

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