Posts Tagged ‘ audiobooks ’

Scott Sigler Talks About Social Media, Podcast Books And The Future Of Publishing

Aug 22nd, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Featured Story, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting

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.



Podiobooks.com Moves To LibsynPro 2, Joins Wizzard Media Network

May 15th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

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 needs [...]



PodShow Press Publishing Book Based On Children’s Podcast

Feb 11th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Making Money with Podcasts

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 named [...]



Scott Sigler Wants To Kill You!

Nov 2nd, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Strange, iPods & Portable Media Players

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 need to [...]

 
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Portable Media Links For Sept 17

Sep 17th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Here’s a roundup of portable media news for Sept. 17th:

EMusic offering MP3 audiobooks - eMusic 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 is [...]



Free MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter

Jun 29th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, General, iPods & Portable Media Players

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 book, [...]



Podcasts A Stepping Stone For New Authors

May 7th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General

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 mind in [...]



Publisher Says Podcasting Is Dead

Nov 21st, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: General

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 products. [...]



Switchpod to Offer Free Audiobooks

Sep 30th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts

Wizzard Software has announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement with Voice Factory International to add thousands of hours of audiobooks to the Switchpod Network. Switchpod.com will offer this extensive collection of [...]