Comments on: No NYT love for Podiobooks.com http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2006/08/30/no-nyt-love-for-podiobookscom/ News from the Staff of Podiobooks.com Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:09:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: erik burggraaf http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2006/08/30/no-nyt-love-for-podiobookscom/#comment-4520 erik burggraaf Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:59:54 +0000 http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2006/08/30/no-nyt-love-for-podiobookscom/#comment-4520 Big difference between podiobooks and libravox though. So far, most podiobooks are produced by the authors. They're not in the public domain. Many are first novels, but they are all contemporary and the authors still hold the rights. As a blind person who gets pleasure reading exclusively from audiobook format and enjoys contemporary fiction, podiobooks are a huge boost to my listening experience. I've got a cd here with 10-15000 classics in .txt format that I can listen too via synthetic or digital speech, but I can't find new current authors in the same way. That's what podiobooks does for me, and so from my point of view, this project is more important than the libravox project, even if it isn't as big... yet. Big difference between podiobooks and libravox though. So far, most podiobooks are produced by the authors. They’re not in the public domain. Many are first novels, but they are all contemporary and the authors still hold the rights. As a blind person who gets pleasure reading exclusively from audiobook format and enjoys contemporary fiction, podiobooks are a huge boost to my listening experience. I’ve got a cd here with 10-15000 classics in .txt format that I can listen too via synthetic or digital speech, but I can’t find new current authors in the same way. That’s what podiobooks does for me, and so from my point of view, this project is more important than the libravox project, even if it isn’t as big… yet.

]]> By: Ron Evry http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2006/08/30/no-nyt-love-for-podiobookscom/#comment-4443 Ron Evry Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:41:38 +0000 http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2006/08/30/no-nyt-love-for-podiobookscom/#comment-4443 Well, I read the article, and more power to Hugh & co. for what they're doing over at Librivox. Believe me, I'm always hungry for publicity for Mister Ron's Basement myself. I have a press release coming out on 9/7/06 concerning my upcoming 500th (!) Episode of humorous public domain stories. While I do get thousands of downloads a day, I still haven't been able to attract advertisers (yet). While digging up stuff on gutenberg is a nice beginning, so far I've spent a bundle on very old books, and hundreds of hours of research time trying to get The Good Stuff. I believe I have succeeded in that & by keeping all my episodes available, I am building up a terrific library of our precious humor heritage. :) If you haven't listened to Mister Ron's Basement lately, do check it out -- there's lots of funny stories there, and my delivery has improved a bit since the early efforts. Well, I read the article, and more power to Hugh & co. for what they’re doing over at Librivox. Believe me, I’m always hungry for publicity for Mister Ron’s Basement myself. I have a press release coming out on 9/7/06 concerning my upcoming 500th (!) Episode of humorous public domain stories. While I do get thousands of downloads a day, I still haven’t been able to attract advertisers (yet).

While digging up stuff on gutenberg is a nice beginning, so far I’ve spent a bundle on very old books, and hundreds of hours of research time trying to get The Good Stuff. I believe I have succeeded in that & by keeping all my episodes available, I am building up a terrific library of our precious humor heritage. :)

If you haven’t listened to Mister Ron’s Basement lately, do check it out — there’s lots of funny stories there, and my delivery has improved a bit since the early efforts.

]]> By: Michael http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2006/08/30/no-nyt-love-for-podiobookscom/#comment-4261 Michael Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:14:47 +0000 http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2006/08/30/no-nyt-love-for-podiobookscom/#comment-4261 Hey Evo maybe you can combine this thought of getting to over 100 books and your previous post on Creative Commons. Now that I have been over to LibriVox I see they have more than 250 items recorded. I'm guessing you could find enought there to get you over 100. What they don't have that you do is a good podcasting scheme. Hey Evo maybe you can combine this thought of getting to over 100 books and your previous post on Creative Commons. Now that I have been over to LibriVox I see they have more than 250 items recorded. I’m guessing you could find enought there to get you over 100. What they don’t have that you do is a good podcasting scheme.

]]> By: Matthew Wayne Selznick http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2006/08/30/no-nyt-love-for-podiobookscom/#comment-4128 Matthew Wayne Selznick Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:27:51 +0000 http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2006/08/30/no-nyt-love-for-podiobookscom/#comment-4128 That's too bad... do you send out a press release every time there's a new title added? Even if it's just through <a href="http://www.prweb.com/" rel="nofollow">PRWeb</a>, it might be worth the effort That’s too bad… do you send out a press release every time there’s a new title added? Even if it’s just through PRWeb, it might be worth the effort

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