HarperTeen and MySpace have created a new online community

Publisher HarperTeen, an American company owned by HarperCollins Publishers, and social network MySpace have partnered and launched a joint service. The new service MySpace / HarperTeen is an online community for teen readers.

Service users will be able to communicate with each other, read the blogs of writers to communicate through the forums and message boards, post photos, find out the latest information on upcoming editions of the books and participate in discussions, programs, and surveys conducted by the publishing house HarperTeen. Beginning in January 2008, authors whose books published HarperTeen, will communicate regularly with young readers in the author chats online HarperTeen / MySpace.

Each holder of a profile on HarperTeen / MySpace also provided the tools with which users can post their own literary creations and receive feedback from the community. Until January 7, 2008, organized the first competition of the site Create and Share, which participants have to publish short stories, poems or songs of his own, according to PRNewswire.

The panel of judges will select the ten most HarperTeen original works, but to choose the winner will be a community HarperTeen / MySpace by a vote. The winner of the contest will receive a cash prize of U.S. $ 5000, and the exclusive opportunity to talk on the phone with the most beloved writer, who publishes HarperTeen. Information about the contest finalists and their work will be posted on the profile publishers HarperTeen, and on different pages of the social network MySpace.

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