A marketing opportunity for your audiobook

My Word Radio streaming audiobooksIf you’re always looking for new options for promoting your audiobook titles – and of course you are – here’s a free venue you should look into.

Big Happy Family publisher Lindsay Fairgrieve of UK-based Rickshaw Productions operates My Word Radio (MWR), an online radio station offering both audiobook and music programming.

Here’s what the site has to say about itself:

My Word Radio is an online radio station offering a mix of Talk and Music titles of different genres which can be listened to at www.mywordradio.com or on iPhones and iPads worldwide.

If you would like to discuss the possibility of having your recorded productions broadcast on our station, please email info@mywordradio.com for further details.

This opportunity is not limited to Big Happy Family publishers.

Please note that My Word Radio is not affiliated with Big Happy Family (beyond the fact that Ms. Fairgrieve is one of our publishers). All communication about broadcasting your title(s) should be directly with MWR.

However, if you are a Big Happy Family publisher, and if we have your MP3 files stored on our server, we’d be happy – for a small fee – to forward the files on your behalf.

Audies Competition – submit your audiobook(s) now

Audies Competition 2012If you’re planning to enter any of your titles(s) in the 2012 Audies Competition, now’s the time to do it. The deadline for submitting titles for “Round One” without a penalty surcharge is August 31 – only a week away.

Visit the official Audio Publishers Association (APA) Audies Competition page for all the details.

Be sure to download and read the 2012 Call For Entries to review the guidelines and category descriptions for this year’s Audies. (This is a PDF file.)

Remember, last year one of Big Happy Family’s publishers – Straight to Audio Productions for Jitters – WON the Audie for Best Multi-Voiced Performance.

Spoken Network has closed

August 2, 2011

One of our direct-to-listener audiobook download vendors, UK-based Spoken Network, has shut down its site. A recent attempt to order a title from the site returned the following message: “Closing Down Sadly, it is no longer possible to purchase titles from this store. If you have made purchases in the past, please ensure these are [...]

Read the full article →

And the Audie goes to …

May 27, 2011

Jessica and I want to congratulate all of the winners in the 2011 Audies Competition. But we especially want to congratulate one: BEST MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE Jitters – A Quirky Little Audio Book by Adele Park, produced by Straight to Audio Productions I posted about Jitters several weeks ago, when it was first announced as a [...]

Read the full article →

The Audies honor “Jitters – A Quirky Little Audio Book”

March 23, 2011

You’ve probably seen the list of Audie Award finalists, released by the Audio Publishers Association on February 24th, 2011. What you may not have picked up on is that one of the nominees – Jitters – A Quirky Little Audio Book – is the product of Big Happy Family publisher Straight to Audio Productions, founded [...]

Read the full article →

Join Jessica Kaye in a Teleseminar on Audiobook Publishing

March 23, 2011

If you’re always looking for more information and tips on producing, publishing and promoting audiobooks – and you should be – here’s your chance to get all of that directly from Big Happy Family’s founder and owner, Jessica Kaye. On Wednesday, April 13th, 2011, the Publishers Association of Los Angeles (PALA) will offer a teleseminar [...]

Read the full article →

Welcome eMusic, LoDingo and Ingram Digital

June 4, 2010

Big Happy Family publishers now have three important new distribution outlets available:   Each of these new vendors represents a unique distribution opportunity: eMusic — a serious, agressive iTunes competitor LoDingo — the Australia-based “Digital Download Megastore” Ingram Digital — “the leading independent e-content distributor” We will post profiles of these sites soon, and will [...]

Read the full article →

Simply Audiobooks Now Available To Big Happy Family Publishers

June 4, 2010

  We are very happy to profile Simply Audiobooks as one of Big Happy Family’s partner vendors — joining Audible, Kitabe and Spoken Network. Simply Audiobooks — a privately held company with offices in Toronto, Canada; Buffalo, NY & Las Vegas, NV — started renting audiobooks online in 2003 and in 2005 added audiobook downloads [...]

Read the full article →