the podcast big picture: what is where?

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Lowell on December 7, 2009 at 1:12pm

two things here - one is podcasting, the other is podiobooks.

podcasting is the delivery of some kind of media payload via an RSS enclosure tag to a specialized feed reader (often called a podcatcher). It could be an mp3 or a PDF, or almost anything that can be put into a single file (including a zipp archive).

podiobooks are serialized audio books that are delivered via podcasting through the podiobooks.com website. The podiobooks.com website is - as you point out - a front-end that links the text/graphic elements of the book to the feed that delivers the mp3. all of us who are podiobook authors have uploaded our books to the libsyn website and they are organized into "shows" .. or in our case "titles"

When you want to publish your audiobook with podiobooks.com, you establish an author account with podiobooks and upload it to libsyn. After some minor QC work, the title will appear in the podiobooks.com catalog. In your promotional efforts you can point to the title page on podiobooks, or to itunes, or to your own RSS feed if you keep one going.

There are two things to clarify ...

1. Libsyn points to a copy of the file that has been uploaded to libsyn for podiobooks. If you want to keep a copy of your own, that gives you some more flexibility in how/who/what you deliver.

2. Podiobooks doesn't promote individual works. Promotion is up to you. They have the catalog, but each of us has to find a way to get people to notice our entry.

Hope this helps.

N

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Permalink Reply by Evo Terra on December 7, 2009 at 8:28pm

What he said.

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Permalink Reply by Eugene Fairfield on December 8, 2009 at 3:26pm

Thank you, Nathan. Putting together what you've said with what Evo said (in his email) with what I see on LibSyn and I think I'm getting it. I think I got confused looking at general podcasting stuff.

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