'To Kill a Mockingbird' Is Going Digital After Author Changes Tune

Welcome to the digital world, Boo Radley.

To Kill a Mockingbird, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a moral lawyer who defends a black man in a racially divided town in the South, is finally going digital. The classic story is scheduled to be released as an e-book and digital audiobook on July 8, more than half a century after it was first published in print.

Harper Lee, the reclusive 88-year-old author behind the book, put out a statement through her publisher, HarperCollins, confirming the deal.

"I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries," Lee said, according to the Associated Press. "I am amazed and humbled that 'Mockingbird' has survived this long. This is 'Mockingbird' for a new generation." Read more...