Seth Godin
October 25th 2008 01:21
I've been reading Seth Godin's blog recently on a daily basis. (Get the email notification whenever he writes something new.)
If I remember rightly I was alerted to it by some other blogger telling me about the book,
Tribes, which Godin published reasonably recently, and which has its own follow-up pdf file where hundreds of people delineate their own 'tribe' experience. A tribe being any small community/group of people who get together for a common purpose.
Amusingly, if you go to the post in which Godin writes about the book, you'll find he's obviously had to update it a few times.
The first paragraph has two updates in it, just for starters.
My reading of Tribes is now available on iTunes as a three hour audio book for less than a dollar. (update: now the bestselling audio book in the world. Price matters, apparently). [You missed it! It seems as though it's now $6. Still a bargain...]
Okay, so the book is now $6. I'm not much into listening to people reading to me - when I walk, for instance, I prefer to think my own thoughts than have someone blathering along in my ear. (Not that Godin blathers - he's been a familiar figure in my reading for a long time.)
My wife likes listening to stories and such when she's walking. And certainly Godin tells stories - though perhaps not enough for her taste!
Godin's next paragraph says:
Or, if that's too much, Audible is using the audio book as a freebie promotion, but I think you need to register.
Yes, you do need to register, and install their software, if you haven't already got iTunes 3.0 on your computer. I presume you can listen to this audio on your computer, but sitting listening to a computer talking isn't too much fun...I'm not the most kinesthetic person in the world, but I do like to move around a bit. My bum gets sore just sitting at the computer.
Yesterday I actually bought my first e-book: Voices of the Virtual World. At first I thought all my payment had given me was a bunch of audio files, which I knew from the advertising wasn't what I'd ordered. However, after experiencing one of my denser moments, I finally realised I'd missed seeing the download pdf file icon (it wasn't very obvious), and now have the book installed on the computer. Plus several of the audio files.
In the end, as Godin says:
The souvenir, dead tree, printed hardcover edition is easier to take to the beach (B&N).
I can only agree. Easier to read in the bath, too.
He mentions a Kindle version, but it seems that while Kindle is very usable in the States, it's not so much here in New Zealand. My tame geek says that in the States you can actually download to your Kindle pretty much from anywhere, as they say. Here of course we don't have quite that kind of wireless access.
If I remember rightly I was alerted to it by some other blogger telling me about the book,
Amusingly, if you go to the post in which Godin writes about the book, you'll find he's obviously had to update it a few times.
The first paragraph has two updates in it, just for starters.
My reading of Tribes is now available on iTunes as a three hour audio book for less than a dollar. (update: now the bestselling audio book in the world. Price matters, apparently). [You missed it! It seems as though it's now $6. Still a bargain...]
Okay, so the book is now $6. I'm not much into listening to people reading to me - when I walk, for instance, I prefer to think my own thoughts than have someone blathering along in my ear. (Not that Godin blathers - he's been a familiar figure in my reading for a long time.)
My wife likes listening to stories and such when she's walking. And certainly Godin tells stories - though perhaps not enough for her taste!
Godin's next paragraph says:
Or, if that's too much, Audible is using the audio book as a freebie promotion, but I think you need to register.
Yes, you do need to register, and install their software, if you haven't already got iTunes 3.0 on your computer. I presume you can listen to this audio on your computer, but sitting listening to a computer talking isn't too much fun...I'm not the most kinesthetic person in the world, but I do like to move around a bit. My bum gets sore just sitting at the computer.
Yesterday I actually bought my first e-book: Voices of the Virtual World. At first I thought all my payment had given me was a bunch of audio files, which I knew from the advertising wasn't what I'd ordered. However, after experiencing one of my denser moments, I finally realised I'd missed seeing the download pdf file icon (it wasn't very obvious), and now have the book installed on the computer. Plus several of the audio files.
In the end, as Godin says:
The souvenir, dead tree, printed hardcover edition is easier to take to the beach (B&N).
I can only agree. Easier to read in the bath, too.
He mentions a Kindle version, but it seems that while Kindle is very usable in the States, it's not so much here in New Zealand. My tame geek says that in the States you can actually download to your Kindle pretty much from anywhere, as they say. Here of course we don't have quite that kind of wireless access.
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