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We’ve posted the final three episodes — all part of the same short story — to John Mierau’s collection Serving Worlds. It’s complete at 28 installments.

SXSW (the South by Southwest Interactive festival) is a key event in the future of, well… many things technology and culture related. It’s been on my radar every year but sadly evades me each time. I’m hoping to make the 2010 event, and I some of our authors are interested as well.
Here’s an incentive: this [...]

Cross posted from Evo Terra’s personal and social media explorations site, FunAnymore.com:
w00t! My good friend Mark Jeffrey has edited and posted his interview with me on his video show, Bibliotech. We get deep into the history, present and future of the serialized audiobook. A podiobook, if you will. And we spend some time talking about [...]

Hugh McGuire writes of a real-world piracy vs. availability issue today on the The Book Oven blog. Hugh is very smart. He’s the driving force behind LibriVox, which has quickly become the #1 place for audiobooks in the public domain.
The story he tells today is of a friend of his who gets excited about a [...]

Reports are coming in from several spots that the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has declared DRM is dead. That comment is attributed to Jonathan Lamy, chief spokesperson for the RIAA and will be part of an upcoming SCMagazine article. The quote came in the form of a question that appears to be rhetorical: [...]

I don’t have the answer to that question. But I have found a hundred or so authors are interested in finding an answer. And that’s really the key: an answer, because surely there isn’t a single answer.
Check out this video of Tim O’Reilly provided by the fine folks at The Open Publishing Lab at the [...]

Too many people toss the word unique around without understanding its meaning. I don’t. And the word applies to a new contest offered up by author Drew Beatty.
He’s currently releasing Lost Gods as a free serialized audiobook. It will come out in print soon, and here’s where the contest — and the word unique — [...]

I don’t think I’d hear a lot of dissent if I said that the internet has forever changed the face of publishing. So with that: The internet has forever changed the face of publishing. There. I said it.
And then I read about how the internet has impacted publishing in China. And now I’m forced to [...]

The O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference was held in NYC last week, and Podiobooks.com had no official representation. I have a strong suspicion that won’t be the case next year. These people seem to speak our language.
I experience the conference in another way: via the power of Twitter. I have to tell you, [...]

Friends of mine Douglas E. Welch and Rosanne Welch are seasoned writers and podcasters. In June, they’re putting on a one-day event at UCLA that will be of interest to any writer looking to get involved in this new media wave.
Podcasting and New Media for Writers: One-Day Seminar
791.888 | Film & Television | $125
Podcasting and [...]