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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 [...]

There’s a great story on Time.com that talks about the changing face of book publishing.
It’s been widely reported and/or speculated that the print industry is dead or dying. Is it?
…publishing isn’t dying. But it is evolving, and so radically that we may hardly recognize it when it’s done. Literature interprets the world, but it’s [...]

That’s the general theme that Jane Lindskold writes about on the fantastic new Tor.com site (Note to self: write future blog post praising them for how they’ve embraced new media with this new site.)
Independent author have a different struggle. Where publishing companies pay someone to design the cover of a book, indie authors are footing [...]

If you’re a fan of free audiobooks (and no, not just those we help distribute), vote for your favorites today! There’s a contest going on over at Goodreads, as social network focused on books. There are 47 different books you can vote for, most of which are available as free serialized audiobooks here on Podiobooks.com.
Goodreads [...]

The new iTunes 8 has launched and fans of audiobooks couldn’t be happier. Prior versions of iTunes kept the Audiobooks section under lock and key. The only files that would display in the Audiobooks section on your iTunes or iPod were books purchased from the iTunes music store. Not very handy to people who buy [...]

There are some changes sweeping the publishing world, and they have a lot of people nervous. One was recently reported in the NYT. It seems that HarperCollins is contemplating not paying new authors advances for their books:
Author advances and bookseller returns have long troubled the publishing industry. Best-selling authors can command advances so high that [...]