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We talk a lot about “firsts” inside the four walls (ok, no walls) here at Podiobooks.com. First podiobook ever, first podiobook released in podcast form only, first children’s book in this format… it goes on and on.
Today I’m happy to report on a new kind of “first” that I heard about a week ago. It […]

Tim Callahan continues his Parsec-winning tale:
The Gyssyc ship is in orbit above Ulliam; the Taskforce sent to meet them has been destroyed. Captain Cook fears the worst, the Gyssyc has declared war on the Ulliam. The crew of the Arwen must figure out what happened before a second fleet arrives, the fate of […]

 

 Arwen 2 promo [0:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

For aspiring podiobook authors who want to even out, normalize, maximize and generally improve their raw narration tracks, I highly recommend getting the latest copy (recently revised) of The Levelator.
It’s a free download that works on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, so just about everyone can use it. Some of the hard-core audio engineers […]

A while back we announced that Precision Pictures had acquired the rights to Matt Wallace’s short story “Delve.” Matt is the author behind The Failed Cities Monologues and directly credits his giving away of his work for free in landing this gig with Precision Pictures.
To the left is a mock-up of the poster for the […]

Here’s a statistic for you:
“From 98 to 99 percent of all books ever published are now out-of-print, so they don’t show up in traditional bestseller lists.”
That comes from Anirvan Chatterjee, founder of BookFinder.com founder. I pulled that from a post on The Book Standard if you want more information.
But I don’t. I’m a little disgusted. […]

Check out this new mystery by Peter E. Abresch called If They Ask for a Hand, Only Give Them a Finger.
When a public garage locked up Chance Dugan’s car for the night, with his wallet locked inside the car, he met the lovely Natti Moon who offered to put him up for the night. […]

 

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I’ve seen a couple of blog posts recently about this new thing called Shrink My Tunes.

The reality, at least for Podiobooks.com, is that MP3 files are getting larger. Back in the day, many of us were concerned about the size of a file, for both storage and bandwidth reasons. Fast-forward a couple of years and […]

While I have little love for politics and even less knowledge of Canadian politics, I was instantly smitten with Terry Fallis’ writing style in his satirical look at Canadian politics, The Best Laid Plans. It truly is one of my favorite books I’ve had the pleasure of listening to.
Terry wrote me today to let me […]

No big secret there. Cory has been on the forefront of this movement, giving away free downloads of every single book he publishes. We’re obvious supporters of this methodology, and are proud to have an audio version of his book Eastern Standard Tribe in our repository of free audiobooks.
Cory writes for Locus Magazine (and lots […]

Seth Harwood has decided to call A Long Way from Disney complete after 15 stories. Well… sort of. I’ll allow Seth to explain in his own words to you:
Some time back, I stopped posting episodes to A Long Way from Disney, which some of you may have noticed. I announced on my episodes that my […]