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Podiobooker Podcast #14

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

See, if I were organized, I would have posted the 14th episode on the 14th of the month, as a special little Valentine. That would have been cool. Let’s all pretend it happened that way.
Site news from Evo and FOUR (count ‘em – four! How cool is that?) promos!
Podiobooks featured titles:
Featured Title: [...]

Podiobooker Podcast #13

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

It’s lucky number 13! Site news from Evo, and the tech report from Chris.
Podiobooks featured titles:
Featured Title: AmerIndian 2192, by J. Scott Garibay
Featured Title: The Plitone Revisionist, by Paul S. Jenkins
Special Feature: Dani Cutler of sffaudio.com and theaudioaddicts.com
reviews Taken Liberty, by Steven H. Wilson

Tea required to listen to a good audiobook

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

When I think of free audiobooks, I immediately contemplate what sort of tea I’m going to drink as I listen.
OK, that’s not really true and is simply my poor attempt at a segue into a way you get some goodies and help support Podiobooks.com.

I just ordered another pound of Golden Monkey tea from Adagio Teas. [...]

Podiobooker Podcast #12

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Woohoo! Welcome to 2007! A special No News is Good News episode to greet the new year.
Podiobooks featured titles:
Featured Title: A Dancing Bear, by David Free
Featured Title: Welcome to the Beehive, by Robert J. Safuto
Featured Title: Great Moments in History, by John G. Stockmyer
Featured Title: Heaven: Season One, by Mur Lafferty
Featured Title: Pirate [...]

Authors doing more than just writing

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

According to a recent article on The Book Standard:
Authors are increasingly coming up with new ways to integrate their books into other forms of media. A Hollywood deal continues to be the desired goal, while the Internet allows anyone and everyone to have a say. But in between, authors have been using music, games, plays [...]

Podiobooker Podcast #11

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

The last Podiobooker of 2006 – *sniff*.
Site news from Tee, and Podiobooks featured titles:
Featured Title: The Immortals, by Tracy Hickman
Featured Title: The House Down Cherry Tree Lane, by Ramona Holliday
Special Feature: Dani Cutler of sffaudio.com and theaudioaddicts.com reviews A Different Point of View, by TD-0013.
We’ll see you again in January. Happy New Year from [...]

Podiobooker Podcast #10

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

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

SFFAudio announces public domain audiobook contest

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Jesse from SFFAudio is offering an incentive for those wishing to record an audio version of select science fiction works in the public domain. The contest is simple: record the audio version of one (or more) of the 20 public domain science fiction titles selected by Jesse. The first person to email him with an [...]

The Broken Distribution Model Of Publishing or, Why Johnny Can’t Pay The Rent As A Writer

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Nielson’s Bookscan has released their retail book sales numbers for 2004. (Um… isn’t it almost 2007?) An interesting picture emerged, from which folks will take away what they need to justify their actions. Ah, statistics. I’m betting the stat that gets bandied about the most will be this The average book sold 500 copies.
And while [...]

Apple now claims trademark on “podcast”

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

I hate to be a Chicken Little, but it is quite possible that we are seeing cracks in the firmament above.
On or about Friday, September 22nd, Apple (AAPL) sent a cease and desist notice to a little company called Podcast Ready, who make a nifty little take-anywhere podcatching application called myPodder. We know Apple (AAPL) [...]