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I guess my last rant on the topics of personal preferences in book reading didn’t go far enough. Because if I hear one more person try and correct someone talking about reading an audiobook, I’m going to scream.
For the record: Yes, you can read an audiobook. Stating otherwise shows, at best, your ignorance. [...]

I’m really tired of the “Which is better: listening to an audiobook or reading a book” debate. It’s inane, banal and pointless.
It’s requires the creation of a false dichotomy. A mandate that you fall into one side or the other. The assumption that you can’t do… both. And there in lies the idiocy of [...]

News broke yesterday that a UK man was arrested for selling illegal copies of Harry Potter and other audiobooks. £85,000 worth of illegal copies, to put a finer point on things. In perhaps his only smart move, he plead guilty. And he still got 21 months in the pokey.
So that their is no confusion: this [...]

Every single one of our audiobooks are DRM-free. They are now, and they always will be. Which means we’ll never ask you to be a criminal.

Mad props to xkcd.

Here are two reasons why traditional media producers decry new media:

They’ve listened to something “new media” and were underwhelmed by the quality. I’m sure that happens frequently. There are LOTS of bad new media examples out there, so it’s possible. But that doesn’t mean all new media is bad. But it can reinforce the [...]

The interwebs are once again spreading the Good News of yet another company (this time an audiobook retailer) eschewing DRM in favor of .mp3 files. And once again, it seems that few of the news sources haven’t bothered to look beyond a press release and actually see if the claim holds up under scrutiny. In [...]

Well, commandments might be a little strong, but I’ve been called egotistical before…
Tips and and Tricks of Success
So you want to make a podiobook, either out of your work or out of some Creative Commons material, do you? Excellent. You’ve made a wise choice in embracing the concept that “information wants to be freed”. 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. [...]

Not long after outgoing SFWA vice president Howard Hendrix offended many with his ‘webscabs’ name-calling, current VP Andrew Burt is taking poor aim at Scribd:
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to fraudulently remove numerous non-infringing works from Scribd, a site that allows the general public [...]

It’s not often that organizations will ask for negative feedback, but no one has ever accused us of going along with the grain.
We hear from many people quite frequently who tell us how great the site is, how they appreciate what we’re doing, and why they are nominating us for sainthood. Hundreds of people send [...]