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 [...]
Michael Dunn follows the changing nature of media, specifically as relates to audio (hence the name of his blog). Seeing the success many authors are seeing by podcasting their work right here on Podiobooks.com, he asks the question:
[W]hy do so many of them still want to attract traditional agents and publishers when they’ve been frustrated [...]
Boing Boing has the scoop on SF author Mark Halprin rattling the chains very much Mark Twain style for not only an extension of copyright, but in fact perpetual copyright. To quote from his NYT opinion piece:
Were I tomorrow to write the great American novel (again?), 70 years after my death the rights to it, [...]
This post has been sitting in my “stewing” folder a while. Time to bring it out.
So…I was reading Neil Gaiman’s blog this morning and apparently he has recorded a new and unabridged audiobook of Neverwhere… I am a little bit wary of this, as I am a little bit wary of all audiobooks-read-by-the-author because reading [...]
Toby Buckell points me to a service that creates “online book trailers” to help authors advertise and virally promote their books. Starting at $250, they make a video where the text of the description is fed on to the view pane while the pane pans over the cover of the book. Scaling up to the [...]
While the title of this post may be largely in jest, we’re currently 2 for 2 in this arena.
Back in September, Matthew and I got involved in a strangely heated debate with an author who we’ll call Don (because that is his name) who wanted to release his SureFire Way to Stop Smoking™ book on [...]
I’m peripherally aware of the Podcast Peer awards. I say peripherally because I’ve never actually heard any of the podcasts I listen to speak of this award in anything more than a passing mention. I’ve never been contacted by anyone administering the award or by any of the hundreds of voting members; hence peripherally.
Yesterday, J.C. [...]
What does fungus have to do with audiobooks? Plenty, if you pay close enough attention. I’m borrowing the term from my friend Steve Eley of Escape Pod. I’m also taking a little poetic license with his definition and applying it to this particular situation.
I pay pretty close attention to the business of audiobooks as you [...]
One of the best books I read in 2006 was Infoquake, by David Louis Edelman. I had a chance to interview him recently on the Dragon Page Cover to Cover. He’s a nice guy, and a smart guy, and one hell of a writer in my opinion.
But as always happens, not everyone agrees with that [...]
I’m busy going through a few thousand (nope, not kidding) emails and RSS items from my two week much-needed vacation tonight, and I noticed a mention about our service on someone’s personal website. The author wrote:
f I was unable to read for some reason, I would consider using [Podiobooks.com and Librivox] and would certainly recommend [...]
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