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Introducing The Pub Call. A Podcast Without a Feed – Yet

On Exhaling | 8 July 2009 with 5 comments

I had the pleasure of meeting Kat Meyer from Next Chapter Communications at this year’s Tools of Change conference . We knew each other from Twitter where there were fantastic conversations underway about the changes in book publishing. Those conversations spilled into real life at TOC. Afterwards Kat and I discussed capturing that value in a more concrete form. We wanted to continue talking on a regular basis about the big issues in publishing. We scheduled a Skype call and The Pub Call podcast was born.

That was six months ago.

In the intervening time Kassia Krozser and Richard Nash joined the call. We invited friends. We talked and talked. I recorded the conversations with the intention of sharing them but then never did. It started to look like I never would. Then Kat, Richard, and I chatted last night and we decided not to wait for The Pub Call to have a proper home or a proper feed. We recorded our conversation and it is here for you to listen to. The ability to subscribe is on the way, as is the archive of past episodes, as is a dedicated website. If you find it is worth your time, please leave a comment or reach out to us on Twitter.

Update: more episodes of The Pub Call podcast are available at Pubcall.com including episode #13.

5 Comments

OMG – it has been 6 MONTHS???? In some ways that seems a lifetime, in some ways it seems like yesterday. But, I am so proud to be a part of this conversation. I hope many more of us who care about the changes in the publishing industry will join the conversation (on the podcast, on Twitter, in regular old life, wherever…) Thank you so much, Mark – for creating this space for us to discuss and dream and speculate and snark and keep moving forward so we can keep bringing books (whatever that may mean) to readers. xo. ~ Kat

Posted by Kat Meyer on 8 July 2009 @ 9pm

Why don’t you go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com and open a free account? You can upload your MP3 files. You can schedule a time slot to air live (there’s even a chatroom) and it will archive the podcasts for your listeners to enjoy at any time. They can even download them to ITunes for free. It sounds like you are sitting on a goldmine of info and it would be great to give a larger audience easy access.

Email me if you have any questions. I use BTR all the time.
Cat Johnson

Posted by Cat Johnson on 9 July 2009 @ 3am

I think you guys were missing the issue of these patents. This is more like the 1-Click ordering thing. Its a business method patent. It’s not so much about the advertising, as it is about owning the ground of a likely to be future business model. It’s also a way of stopping (or profiting from) Google putting ads on pages in Google Books.

Posted by Fran Toolan on 9 July 2009 @ 5am

@Cat That is good advice. We shied away from BTR initially because of the 45 minute time limit. I am afraid the biggest barrier to moving forward with this has been me. A site is on its way. I hope there is value here for you.

Posted by mb on 9 July 2009 @ 5am

Hmmm. I thought the times ranged from 15 minutes all the way to 2 hours per show at BTR. They change things daily around there. Glad you are on your way to a permanent home, no matter where you end up.

Posted by Cat Johnson on 9 July 2009 @ 5am

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