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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 […]

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 […]

 

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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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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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

Hooray for BoingBoing.net! The ubercool “Directory of Wonderful Things” posted an entry about an upcoming launch party for the sequel to J.C. Hutchins’ podiobook, 7th Son: Book One - Descent. The party will be held this Saturday (Sept. 23) in the metaverse-inspired online community Second Life. The BoingBoing post is here.
You can find out more […]

Occasionally, I hear of other organizations doing similar things to what we are doing here at Podiobooks.com. Today I found out about DailyLit. They specialize in supplying text versions of books in the public domain. But since they also recognize that people are inherently busy, they supply the books in bite-sized chunks via email. From […]

A few days ago, I noticed a blog post by Tim Peoples on the subject of the next steps of publishing his recently-finished-first-draft-of novel. (Yes, I have extensive ego filters set up on the term “podiobook”.) He expressed some concerns about publishing right away, and I seconded the argument in a comment to the […]

I received some feedback today in an unusual manner. Months ago, I was interviewed by Rob of Podcast411 and talked quite a bit Podiobooks.com. It seems that at least one of Rob’s listeners is stretching the notion of time-shifted consumption a bit more than most, for he just found time to send feedback to […]