Spooky stories for Halloween 2008

Spooky stories for Halloween 2008

I have been thinking about recording some audio books from other people’s writing for some time now. Halloween is approaching, and what better reason to pick a scary story to record a special episode. UPDATE: Sadly, due to work commitments driving me to 16+ hour days, it has been impossible to find the time to [...]


eMusic catalogue reaches over 4 million tracks

eMusic catalogue reaches over 4 million tracks

eMusic this week announced their online music catalogue has just reached 4 million tracks! Now affiliated with 40,000 record labels, and recently having shifted its service into a more web 2.0 social network environment, it seems eMusic is going from strength to strength. David Pakman, eMusic President and CEO said: eMusic is redefining digital music [...]


Borders opens online audiobook store

Borders opens online audiobook store

Borders, the international book retailer, has begun selling audiobooks as downloads from their online store. 15,000 titles are planned to be available for download in mp3 – which means DRM-free, of course – and can be played on pretty much any digital music device. In addition, the audiobooks are available in WMA format – which [...]


DRM-free audiobooks from Random House

DRM-free audiobooks from Random House

As much as publishers panic at the thought of losing control of their products once out there on the mighty interweb, so we are seeing more companies offering professional audiobook products as DRM-free downloads. PublishersWeekly is reporting that Simply Audiobooks is about to offer more than 5000 DRM-free products from Random House. This means Simply [...]


TableRappers and the European Podcast Awards

TableRappers and the European Podcast Awards

Yes, I’m on the scrounge again… TableRappers Persistent Spirit is up for votes in the 2008 European Podcast Awards. So if you have a minute, please click this banner or link and leave your vote. And do let me know so I can personally thank you!