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: Audiobooks
May 12, 2011 | Thursday | 19 Comments
Per Shelf Awareness today, Audible has launched ACX, which enables authors to create audiobooks of their work, either by narrating them or by hiring voice actors from the registered database of talent. Here, have a video about it, featuring two actors who really irritated me with their pseudo-bashful self-congratulatory demeanor: The upshot is that so many excellent books are not made into audio books, and with the increasing success of self-publishing ventures in digital and print-on-demand, audiobooks are a natural extension of that success. The ACX program is available to authors at a flat rate or at a 50/50 share…
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February 10, 2010 | Wednesday | 37 Comments
Behold: three very different but very interesting bits of book promotion that have made their way to my inbox or mailbox. First: Nora Roberts’ alter ego JD Robb is releasing her 30th book in the Eve/Roarke series. And check out the promotional bundle that appeared with a copy of the book: evidence bags! Each bag contains key evidence from one of the prior books, and there are 29 sets in all. Included is a memo from Eve Dallas that refers to a website where you can see all the different evidence bags that were sent out to reviewers and media…
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December 05, 2009 | Saturday | 2 Comments
Back in October I wrote about the twitter collaboration with Neil Gaiman coordinated by BBC Audiobooks.
Well, the book is done and is available through December as an audiobook but only in chapter sections online. It’ll be available for download starting in January. If you’re a Gaiman fan, or are curious how this collaboration turned out, you can listen to each chapter online.
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October 12, 2009 | Monday | 26 Comments
The BBC Audiobooks America folks have sent me a shiny press release today about a new Twitter-collaboration with Neil Gaiman that will result in an audio book: This Halloween, BBC Audiobooks America (@BBCAA) is offering a treat for Twitter audiophiles: the chance to write a story with fantasy master Neil Gaiman. The New York Times bestselling author of The Graveyard Book and Twitter enthusiast (known as @neilhimself) will launch an original story-writing project on the popular social networking site October 13 at Noon EST. Gaiman will tweet the first line of the story and fans can jump in and continue…
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June 10, 2009 | Wednesday | 4 Comments
One of the things I am most interested in is the online education potential for authors, readers, reviewers, and all them publishing type folks who are curious about how to use Twitter, Facebook, blogs, mySpace, podcasting, etc. for online marketing and publicity. Booksquare University has positioned itself perfectly to offer online workshops on how to use key tools for online promotion, starting with Tweet Camp. The video introducing TweetCamp is fantastic, particularly because it cuts through the media hype in the first two minutes, and asks those curious about Twitter to look at it in a new way: “What if…
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May 27, 2009 | Wednesday | 4 Comments
Want access to over 1800 public domain audiobooks on your iPhone? Thanks to the Consumerist link, we can has audiobook.
You wanna know about paranormal romance? Of course you do. Go read this article from PW, and remember: Osborn is good. Osborn is wise.
[Curtsey to bec for the links.]
But wait, there’s more audio! Thanks to Barbara, here’s a link to a Lori Foster novel for free from Audible.com! At 1:44, that’s a whole lot of free. Nice title, too: Stranded!
But not without audio!
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April 18, 2009 | Saturday | 29 Comments
Thanks to Rebecca for the following: should you need a gift for the romance fan in your life, come 1 July, you can bring joy and contentment to everyone on your list with the audio recording of Richard Armitage reading Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester.
It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
And if you’re needing immediate joy and gratification, here’s Alan Rickman reading Sonnet 130.
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June 22, 2008 | Sunday | 46 Comments
Bitchery Reader Fizz sent me an email that led to the Google Search of Champions. Heather writes about: potentially THE most powerful endorsement of romance in the known universe. See, there is this show called Top Gear, aired on the BBC and hosted by Jeremy Clarkson (AKA ‘Clarkson’), Richard Hammond (‘Hamster’) and James May (‘Captain Slow’). TG is a car show at heart - it’s a hilariously awesome car show, but it’s basically all about the shiny bodywork and VROOM VROOM noises, with the occasional deep and meaningful question…like for example, “How many motorcycles can you jump in a bus?”…
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April 15, 2008 | Tuesday | 10 Comments
Today’s MacZot is lovely interesting if you’re into hearing your own books: Narrator reads text aloud, using multiple voices if you’d like. Once you’ve selected a portion of text you want to hear, you can identify which voice reads what, and then export the whole thing to iTunes. Make your own audio books? Listen to your work in progress as an editing technique? Ask the different voices to read vaguely obscene phrases so you can giggle like a 10-year-old boy? Whatever blows your skirt up. Very cool.
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