Nashville, TN (PRWEB) August 4, 2009
FiledBy is collaborating with Authors on Tour – Live to post live author podcasts on individual author sites on FiledBy. The podcasts, which feature best-selling authors discussing and reading from their books, are recorded live at the Tattered Cover Book Store, a premiere independent bookstore with three locations in Colorado.
FiledBy has posted over 140 podcasts from the Authors on Tour – Live series and another 40 produced during the 2009 Book Expo in New York.
“We are excited about the author interviews developed by Authors on Tour – Live and are pleased to be posting them to individual author sites on FiledBy. The interviews are of excellent quality and very interesting to listen to,” says Peter Clifton, FiledBy CEO and president. “We look forward to working with Authors on Tour – Live to add many more podcast as they are developed in the future.”
Examples of the author podcasts include:
????David Sedaris, author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames
????Neil Gaiman, author of Anansi Boys
????Alice Schroeder, author of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
????John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise
FiledBy features nearly 3 million websites linking authors, co-authors, illustrators, photographers, artists, editors, translators and other listed contributors to a published book, together under one virtual roof. Every publishing category is represented on FiledBy including general trade, academic, professional and education. More than 8 million books are available for browsing and sale through Amazon, Amazon Canada, B&N.com, Powells, Borders, Indigo and IndieBound.
“We’re so pleased to be partnering with FiledBy,” says Authors on Tour – Live Senior Producer Jeremy Brieske. “The FiledBy author sites are such a great way for authors to boost their online presence, and being able to include the Authors on Tour – Live podcasts on those pages really gives the reader a lot of information to take in when looking for new books to read.”
Authors on Tour – Live podcasts are produced by BurstMarketing, a leading podcasting publishing company located in Denver.
FiledBy is the largest online directory of author sites providing web tools, e-commerce and community-building solutions for published book authors and contributors — co-authors, illustrators, photographers, artists, translators and editors. FiledBy provides authors and readers with social tools to connect with each other and includes more than 3 million author websites and 8 million book pages that can be discovered through a single database.
BurstMarketing is a podcast publishing company that creates and distributes podcasts that burst across the new network of media players including iPods, cell phones, portable players, PCs and laptops. Burst produces podcasts for leading brands such as: BookExpo America, Copyright Clearance Center, Qwest Communications, and Dr. Andrew Weil. Burst’s podcasts are averaging a total of 1 million downloads annually from 400,000 unique customers.
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