If you listened to the latest episode of TFABS, you heard the news… Jason McGinty is narrating Medicine Woman, soon to be available as an audiobook on Audible, Amazon.com, and iTunes.
I think, love the medium or hate it, audiobooks are the future of books. People can lament this all they want. It’s persistent denial. No amount my liking physical books is going to harass people into sharing the sentiment. I believe that audiobooks are so consequential that the audio version of your book should be released before print and digital. It also mandatory to release an audio version. Those are the market forces. I stopped belly aching about it a long time ago. If you can’t beat em, join em.
You are probably right. My commute is such that I crush audiobooks. I also know a lot of blue collar guys that spend all day in trucks or tractors that fly through them. They are def an important part of the market. The haters can hate. I don’t get it.
I actually understand some of the underlying resentment for audiobooks but I think it’s kind of misplaced. I think the rationale goes something like: if you don’t have time to sit down and read a book in print, you’re not managing your time properly. While agree with that statement, It’s kind of more nuanced than that. It’s kind of aimed at the readers of just audiobooks. In that context I understand the sentiment. Guys that say that they don’t have time to read are the same ones that say they don’t have time for cardio or the gym. When you say that I instantly hear “I mismanage my time/I’m lazy”. I’m rarely too busy to get at-least 20 pages in before bed (and that’s incredibly low volume reading when compared to where I’d like to be). Plus, I have just near zero respect for a guy that says he doesn’t read, and I don’t give a fuck how judgmental that sounds. Scratch that, I do care. I hope it sounds very judgmental. That guy is an intellectual eunuch. Only until recently was socially acceptable to not be well read, have a decent command of philosophy, history and geopolitics. That guys is also saying, by extension: I’m more important than you, and I have important things (like video games, drug use and the 49ers game) that command my time, and you don’t. Implicit there is that the knowledge gleaned from reading isn’t important. I’m diverging here.
I read and listen to audiobooks, and that really where I think they fit in for functional people. As a complement, not a replacement for print. But the fact remains, for many that it has replaced print books. You gotta deal with that reality.
Very cool. The audiobook version of first book will be out in 5 to 8 weeks. The narrator was excellent, really above and beyond.
I bring that up to say if you’re half as excited as I am about your audiobook then it’s going to be a long wait.
Congratulations. I’ll likely be purchasing it when it comes out. I was reading the digital sample of MW on Amazon.
Any plans to make your next book into an audiobook?
Awesome! Yeah it sounds great. And planning to have McGinty do the next one as audio too. Will likely drop middle of the year.
I think, love the medium or hate it, audiobooks are the future of books. People can lament this all they want. It’s persistent denial. No amount my liking physical books is going to harass people into sharing the sentiment. I believe that audiobooks are so consequential that the audio version of your book should be released before print and digital. It also mandatory to release an audio version. Those are the market forces. I stopped belly aching about it a long time ago. If you can’t beat em, join em.
You are probably right. My commute is such that I crush audiobooks. I also know a lot of blue collar guys that spend all day in trucks or tractors that fly through them. They are def an important part of the market. The haters can hate. I don’t get it.
I actually understand some of the underlying resentment for audiobooks but I think it’s kind of misplaced. I think the rationale goes something like: if you don’t have time to sit down and read a book in print, you’re not managing your time properly. While agree with that statement, It’s kind of more nuanced than that. It’s kind of aimed at the readers of just audiobooks. In that context I understand the sentiment. Guys that say that they don’t have time to read are the same ones that say they don’t have time for cardio or the gym. When you say that I instantly hear “I mismanage my time/I’m lazy”. I’m rarely too busy to get at-least 20 pages in before bed (and that’s incredibly low volume reading when compared to where I’d like to be). Plus, I have just near zero respect for a guy that says he doesn’t read, and I don’t give a fuck how judgmental that sounds. Scratch that, I do care. I hope it sounds very judgmental. That guy is an intellectual eunuch. Only until recently was socially acceptable to not be well read, have a decent command of philosophy, history and geopolitics. That guys is also saying, by extension: I’m more important than you, and I have important things (like video games, drug use and the 49ers game) that command my time, and you don’t. Implicit there is that the knowledge gleaned from reading isn’t important. I’m diverging here.
I read and listen to audiobooks, and that really where I think they fit in for functional people. As a complement, not a replacement for print. But the fact remains, for many that it has replaced print books. You gotta deal with that reality.