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This is the second year the Parsec Awards (‘Dedicated to rewarding excellence in various aspects of Speculative Fiction Podcasting’) have been offered. I’m happy to announce that much of the 2007 landscape is made up of titles you can hear right here on Podiobooks.com:
Best Audio Drama (Long Form including Independents)

The Failed Cities Monologues
Prometheus Radio Theatre […]

Reprinted in its entirety from BoingBoing.net
Universal Music — who are usually the most extreme piracyphobes in the music industry — have announced that they’re going to try selling much of their catalog without DRM from now until January. What caused them to change positions? Fear of an iPod Planet.
The iPod plays two kinds of music: […]

I love it when content creators decide to use new ways to distribute material to their audience. Some friends have mine have put together a great looking series of comics and are pushing the .PDF files — for free — down an RSS feed. The first episode dropped today, so go subscribe to the feed!
For […]

Faithful listeners,
For the past few months, you’ve all been putting up with a variety of direct response ads at the beginning of most episodes of the books you are listening to. These short clips gave you a customized URL attached to our site. Some decided to try those links out, and a few actually made […]

Returning author, Myke Bartlett, has written his new book called Electricity. Come check it out!
From the Author of How to Disappear Completely:
1999
Aston Somerfield, casual smoker and part-time alcoholic, has come to London to find himself. He knows who he’s looking for, he’s seen him on the cover of the NME. Drawn across oceans by fame […]

 

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Please welcome a brand new book by Lisa Wright called WRIGHTALES Fairy Tales for Grown Ups.
Wrightales are original fairy tales for grownups who have never quite grown up written and read by Lisa Wright. Though they follow the conventions of traditional tales, they have more humor than the Brothers Grimm, fewer princesses than Disney, and […]

 

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Responding to comments from listeners of The Immortal by JJ Dewey, the author has decided to consolidate the episodes of this book, creating longer but fewer episodes for your listening pleasure. Current subscribers are encouraged to cancel their subscription to the old entry and then re-add the subscription to their account. We apologize for the […]

This book is getting some serious buzz on the net, and we’re excited to release the title right here on Podiobooks.com. It’s Grey, by Jon Armstrong:
High fashion, corporate malfeasance, celebrity culture, and an obsessed media collide with exuberant violence and volatile intensity in Grey, the explosive debut novel by Jon Armstrong.
For Michael Rivers, life is […]

Inside Stories is a short collection (only seven episodes) of short stories written by Mike Yachnik and narrated by Jeff Kafer. It just went live and is fully complete. Here are the details:
From traditional to experimental in format, this collection of short stories
includes mysteries, monologues, literary pieces and mischievous whimsy. At times humorous, at times […]