Comments on: Iain Banks ‘Groundbreaking’ Podcast Novel Shot Down By Longtime Pod-book Listeners!

By: ShadedSpriter

ShadedSpriter — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:26:11 +0000

I was coming here hoping for a link to a podiobook I had not heard of…instead I get stupidity from Old media press releases…Well at least I have “The Plitone Revisionist” in the comments I have heard promos for it but never got around to it…

Also even his “correction” is wrong after Scott Sigler’s Contagious release.

By: podblack

podblack — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:41:41 +0000

Whoot! Evo Terra and serialised audiobooks for the win.

By: Evo Terra

Evo Terra — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:09:21 +0000

I think the word “misunderstanding” is right. While there are those of us who have been leading the charge for years, the vast majority of people have no idea what a serialized audiobook is.

So rather than worry too much about the fact checking that should have went on, I simply reached out to Iain’s publisher and offered to have this book join the hundreds of others we currently have available.

By: podblack

podblack — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:17:34 +0000

HA!!! *rolls around on the floor!* – thanks PaulJ! Very funny!

By: PaulJ

PaulJ — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:24:55 +0000

It's odd that The Bookseller journalist didn't look in the magazine's own archives. Last November they published an article all about podcast novels. (I know, because I was featured in it. Not available on their website as far as I can tell, which gives you an idea about how clued-up they are about this stuff.) The Plitone Revisionist