An article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly closed with a mention of a favorite cardio workout podcast – the long-running (pun intended) Podrunner. The Podrunner series features free exercise music mixes for runners, joggers, power walkers, cyclists, elliptical trainers, aerobics, or “anyone who can use nonstop, fixed-tempo [...]

Publishers Weekly magazine reports today what may be the first offer of its kind from traditional publishing. Book publisher Thomas Nelson has launched “NelsonFree,” a program which gives readers their content in several different formats – as a hardcover book, an e-book, and an audiobook, all for the purchase price of a single volume. Thomas [...]

In this exclusive interview, audiobook podcasting pioneer Scott Sigler explains how he used his podcast to get a book deal and even a movie deal, how he uses social media to promote his work and why he wants to kill you off in his next book.

Wizzard Media announced today that Podiobooks.com, a free audiobook podcast network, is now using LibsynPRO 2.0 podcast hosting and will make their library of shows available on the Wizzard Media Network for advertising opportunities. “Libsyn has always been a valued partner for Podiobooks.com and one that is always willing to work with us, as our [...]

Mark Linder, the creator of the Bedtime Stories My Kids Love podcast, has reached an agreement with the newly formed PodShow Press to publish in both audio and print form his first book of bedtime stories, The Adventures of the Man in the Can. The new work is a collection of stories about a character [...]

Pioneering sci-fi podcaster Scott Sigler, creator of the EarthCore and Ancestor podcast novels, wants to kill you. He’s working on his latest novel/podcast, Nocturnal, and he needs some people to kill off. Here are the gory details: “I’m running a contest where your name can be the name of a victim in NOCTURNAL. All you [...]

Here’s a roundup of portable media news for Sept. 17th: EMusic offering MP3 audiobooks РeMusic is offering more than a thousand books for download, with many of them cheaper than on iTunes. For example, “The Audacity of Hope,” read by author Barack Obama, will cost $9.99 on eMusic compared with $18.95 on iTunes. This [...]

freeiPodsoftware.com has a free MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter that turns any number of MP3 files into one iPod Audio Book File. The advantage of doing this is that you can make use of the advanced audio book functionality of your iPod. For example, your iPod remembers where you were listening in your audio [...]

An article in today’s New York Times looks at how some authors are using podcasts and audiobooks as stepping stones in getting publishing deals. When you are a budding author and you appear on television, it is sure to enhance book sales. But what do you do if your book is not even written, never [...]

British-Russian online audiobook publisher AudioBooksForFree says that “Podcasting is Dead,” predicting that in the next five years downloading, podcasting, P2P and other forms of on-demand delivery will be superseded gigantic compilations of thousands hours of digital entertainment in one single and relatively cheap boxset. The company specialises in massive compilations, which they describe as GigaBulk [...]