Thanks Robert for continuing to help out with this...
Intro: Keep it under 1 min.
Sample: Keep it to 1 min max.
The podcasts should be shorter, true.
The eventual form that these will take is still evolving.
It may very well be that these will eventually be podcast as
individual, separate units as done by other audiobook publishers.
This will only be fully effective when more (most) finished projects
are producing them. As this is on a volunteer basis, we'll wait and
see. As LV audiobooks are hypothetically perpetual and "eternal,"
their release dates as "podcasts" are immaterial except as we
internally audit their production. The purpose or aim of these
sampling snippets is principally to reach out to peoples who do
not already know about LibriVox or its catalog. Once here, they
can search and view and get streaming samples that they can listen
to anywhere from 5 secs to a whole "chapter." Cool.
And by-the-way, here's another more expanded thought...
We've been experimenting, through both iTunes and FeedBurner,
with a weekly Short Story Podcast. It is the second most popular
"Official" LibriVox Podcast (with or without "official" tags) already and
it may be that simply creating a running "New Releases" podcast
in a similar way, linking to the first chapter of every book,
as it's
released, would be the most time efficient way to let the general
public know about what's being released. People can start the stream
going (without an explanatory intro) and know right away if this is
something for them...
Like everything else, it all changes, is evaluated, changes, is re-evaluated,
and changes again.
Thanks again for the help.
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