Bits and Bytes

Web Audio

Providing audio on your Web site can boost your sales 300% or more. This month’s “Bits and Bytes” provides the links to find information and services to make your site loud and clear. We’ve also included five Web sites that have interviews and radio shows on independent publishing. For more on Web audio see Scott Flora’s column on page five.

Audacity Recorder and Editor —You can download this free at www.audacitysourceforge.net.

Audio Review Sites —These sites review both Web site audio software and online services.

Reviewster—www.reviewster.com ·
Web Site Audio Review—www.WebSiteAudioReviews.com

 

Web Audio Software Programs —These programs place HTML code on your Web page and also help you place your audio files on your Internet service provider’s computer.

Audio Maker Pro—www.AudioMakerPro.com
MP3 Soundstream—www.MP3Soundstream.com (has good free articles and tutorials)
Total Web Audio—www.totalwebaudio.com

 

Subscription Services —These monthly-fee services allow you to upload files you have already created and record sound files over the phone.

Audio Acrobat—www.AudioAcrobat.com
Instant Audio—www.InstantAudio.com
BYO Audio—www.byoaudio.com

Audio on the Internet—Hear the World of Publishing

To listen in on the world of publishing, check out these Web sites. All of them have free listening. Some are streaming (play while you are at the Web site), and some are downloads (play on a program like Windows Media Player or iTunes).

Book Treasure House http://www.booktreasurehouse.com/radio.html

Ted Maas interviews Alan Kahn, president and CEO of Barnes & Noble; Karin Taylor, director of The Small Press Center; and Eric Kampmann, president of Midpoint Trade Books.

Planned Television Arts http://www.plannedtvarts.com/pta/teleseminar_recordings.html

Rick Frishman archives more than twenty-five teleseminars with publishing and PR experts like intellectual property attorney Lloyd Jassin; non-bookstore marketing expert Brian Jud, president of Book Marketing Works; and e-business consultant Tom Antion, president of Antion and Associates.

Publishing Basics Radio
http://www.wbjbradio.com/

Ron Pramschufer, founder of RJ Communications and Booksjustbooks.com, talks to Tara M. Blom, manager of the Annual Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards; Davida Breirer, sales and marketing manager for Biblio Distribution; and Penny Sansevieri, president of Author Marketing Experts, Inc.

Writers Roundtable on World Talk Radio http://www.worldtalkradio.com/show.asp?sid=11

For two hours each week on Writer’s Roundtable, Antoinette Kuritz and a variety of cohosts talk with successful writers, agents, editors, book designers, ghost writers, reviewers, read and critique group leaders—anyone and everyone from the writing community who can motivate, educate, and inspire writers in the art, craft, and business of writing.