Evo’s “adapting” Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
I show the word “adapting” in quotes because that’s not entirely what I’m doing. Allow me to explain.
Cory has been releasing his fiction free of charge to the public for quite some time now. His novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, has been dowloaded as a free .PDF file some 650,000+ times and has been through at least six printings with Tor books.
Working on that success and also embracing the model of podcasting, Cory has been releasing readings of his short fiction on his own podcast. One of them appears in Voices: New Media Fiction right here on Podiobooks.com He’s decided to step up his game and is currently reading and releasing Eastern Standard Tribe to his listeners.
Cory is of the “record and release” persuasion of authors. He’s a busy guy and doesn’t care to spend a lot of time on the production and polish of his recordings. Hey, if there’s one thing I like about podcasting, it’s the continual proving that there is no one right way.
But the reality is that you listeners have grown accustomed to a certain modicum of production in your podiobooks. We’ve created this new model of books — serializing them — and you seem to like it.
The dilemma - Getting Cory’s book on the site without requiring him to redo everything.
The solution - I’ll do it. I need the practice. And I dig his work. So as Cory releases new episodes on his podcast, I’ll be snagging them, cleaning them up and adding a bit of spit and polish to them for later presentation right here on Podiobooks.com. He’s got four episodes out right now and I’ve just finished the first one. I’m sending it off to him for final approval and then will start on the others.
Now you know!
February 4th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
This is way cool. Can’t wait to hear it!!!
February 5th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Hey Evo, did you decide to do this just because you have too much free time on your hands?
Seriously, this very cool. I’m looking forward to hearing it.
Rick