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Cooper:
Last year this book came out (can't remember the name), something to do with a library and a bookshelf for the cover with a male silhouette at the bottom, and on iTunes it came out with a companion music soundtrack to the book.  Is this something new or are books getting the same treatment to movies with their soundtracks?  The idea came up when I was outlining my book last night.

Starbeam:
Only book I've seen it done with was a Star Wars book, Shadows of the Empire, but that was an odd one out because it got the soundtrack, a video game, action figures, and a comic.

From a quick search, it looks like the one you're talking about is "The Book of Lies" by Brian Meltzer.  The thing I have to wonder about, looking at the cd on Amazon, is how royalties and cost of rights tie in with it.  The CD is a made on demand type thing, and looks to be mostly classical, but still has more recent stuff.

ballplayer72:

--- Quote from: Cooper on June 04, 2009, 07:46:35 PM ---Last year this book came out (can't remember the name), something to do with a library and a bookshelf for the cover with a male silhouette at the bottom, and on iTunes it came out with a companion music soundtrack to the book.  Is this something new or are books getting the same treatment to movies with their soundtracks?  The idea came up when I was outlining my book last night.

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What ive been doing with mine, is naming the chapters after a song.  that song describes the feel of the chapter.  nifty huh?

Starbeam:

--- Quote from: ballplayer72 on June 04, 2009, 09:19:22 PM ---What ive been doing with mine, is naming the chapters after a song.  that song describes the feel of the chapter.  nifty huh?

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Ohh...so you watch Grey's Anatomy?  Tehe.  All the episodes are named after song titles, which basically does the same sort of thing with giving a mood, although you have to look up the episode names.

Another idea is like the woman who writes the Weather Warden series, can't remember her name or see the books, she puts a playlist at the end of the book.

LizW65:
Occasionally a soundtrack is built right into the text, as with Pratchett and Gaiman's Good Omens, which references a number of Queen songs.

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