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MySpace, HarperCollins team up for new book

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | 2:40 PM ET

CBC News

Popular online social network MySpace is teaming up with HarperCollins to make its first foray into book publishing, with a title that will feature user-generated content.

MySpace and Bowen Press have announced their plans to collaborate on an environmental title targeting youth to be called MySpace/Our Planet: Change is Possible, set for release April 22, Earth Day.

To be written by freelancer journalist Jeca Taudte, with a forward by MySpace co-founder and president Tom Anderson, the book will weave environmental tips submitted by MySpace users into the text.

Those who make it into the book will be credited by their MySpace username and location.

Users are invited to post their tips through Nov. 7 via a special "Our Planet" page on MySpace.com.

"The first MySpace book is just one more way we are working to engage the MySpace community in environmental issues and encourage people to take action," Anderson said in a statement.

HarperCollins has scheduled a first printing of 200,000 for the book.

With files from the Associated Press

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