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Skype has become adopted by the podcasting community as the preferred method of conversation. It really took off last year when they announced free outbound calling to any phone number in the US or Canada. It’s a sweet deal and is how I make most of my long distance calls when I’m at home.

But as […]

Many of you are enjoying The Failed Cities Monologues, a production of Variant Frequencies written by Matt Wallace. Rick and Matt have been producing free short fiction audio content for awhile now, and it seems to have reached the right audience. Here’s a sanitized version of Matt’s post from his NSFW MySpace blog:
I’ve been waiting […]

Holy. Hanna. Words cannot begin to express how friggin’ sorry all of us on staff here at Podiobooks.com are for the massive outages as of late. Consider this a public apology, all of our listeners and authors a like. It’s super cool that you have all stuck with us as we go through this.
Wanna know […]

Our eighty-first title is now live — a novel from Mike Bennett set in a neighbourhood just like yours: noisy, angry, and demented.
“One Among The Sleepless” is a contemporary fiction novel set in Brighton, England about sex, death and noisy neighbours: a thriller with a rich vein of dark humour that flows from both the […]

The response to our recent increase in our payments to authors (they now get 75% of your contributions — up from 50%) has been great, but many of you are asking the same question: How can I donate just to the staff of Podiobooks.com?
Well, I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. […]

Note to readers: I was up until nearly 2:00 AM last night. Pray this be coherent…
After a long neglect, I finally managed to get through all the donations which had piled up from September. Yes, I’m a procrastinator. A very, very big one. But thank you notes have been sent and, just as importantly, every […]

Just in time for the holidays: a new Podiobooker episode!
Updates on the site from Tee and Chris, and then some podiobooks.com
featured titles:
Featured Title: Live, From Milwaukee, It’s Tuesday Night, by Billie
Pagliolo-Olman
Featured Title: Jack Wakes Up, by Seth Harwood
Special Feature: Dani Cutler of sffaudio.com reviews 7th Son: Descent, by
J.C. Hutchins

 

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Might as well get this out quick: the percentage paid to authors from all listener contributions is, effective December 1, 2006, increasing from 50% to 75%.
Yeah, we rock.
Actually, those people putting in the sweat, blood and mic-time of making their books available in a free serialized version here on Podiobooks.com rock. And in a world […]