Martyn Daniels

Are digital audiobook services non-starters? On FutureBook, Martyn Daniels posts about all the up-and-coming audiobook services FutureBook expected to take off, but subsequently didn’t. These aren’t just fly-by-night services, either; at least one of them offered quite reasonable pricing and readings by quite famous actors. With the infrastructure already existing and music MP3 going DRM-free, [...]

FutureBook has a post looking at the relevance of Charles Dickens to present-day publishing. Dickens, Martyn Daniels writes, wrote and published many stories in installments in pamphlets prior to publishing them in completed form. The ad revenue from the installments helped to support him while he published the final version, and fueled interest in the [...]

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