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Fahrenheit 451 author's e-book submission
Thu, 1st Dec 2011
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91-year-old author Ray Bradbury has agreed to allow his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 to be published as an e-book, following years of vociferous objection to the new format.

According to a BBC report, the rights to the novel had been due to expire, and a new contract was going to be impossible to secure without including e-book rights.

The book's US publisher, Simon - Schuster, is now selling Fahrenheit 451 for US$9.99. UK publishers HarperCollins have not yet finalised a deal.

The novel, which posits a future in which reading is banned and books are burned, has sold 10 million copies since it was first published in 1953.

Bradbury has been a vocal opponent of technology, telling the New York Times in 2009 that the internet was ‘a big distraction'.

"It's meaningless; it's not real,” the author said.

"It's in the air somewhere.