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MySpace is getting into the book business.
The online social network, an increasingly popular venue for authors, booksellers and publishers, is collaborating with a children’s imprint of HarperCollins on an environmental handbook coming out April 22, Earth Day.

“How great it is to launch a partnership with a company with as large an influence as MySpace on such an important topic,” Jane Friedman, President and CEO of HarperCollins, said Wednesday in a statement.

“MySpace has entire online communities, such as the Impact Channel and OurPlanet, dedicated solely to environmental and social causes,” Tom Anderson, co-founder and president of MySpace, said in a statement. “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.”

The paperback original, to be called “MySpace/Our Planet: Change is Possible,” will be written by freelance journalist Jeca Taudte and include a foreword by Anderson. According to Brenda Bowen, vice president and publisher of the Bowen Press, a HarperCollins imprint, “MySpace/Our Planet” will be about 160 pages and cost about $12.95. A first printing of 200,000 is planned.

Cool we thinks

Just hours after die-hard fans finally got their hands on a copy of “Halo 3,” blogs brimmed with reports that special limited-edition packaging is scratching the video game disks.
While the scratches don’t appear to be keeping gamers from playing the last installment of the popular trilogy, it’s a rough patch that Microsoft Corp., which has faced several Xbox 360 glitches in recent months, could have lived without.

OUR CommentsCan you believe this, our office has been waiting in anticipation to play this latest “shoot em up” So I hope the one we get at the weekend works fine.

We’ll let you know
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