Fighting For Our Right To Party

[zvi]

So, I am not actually directing you to go talk to people in an anon meme, but there's a long discussion about posting a story podfic first, text delayed, in the Inception anon meme on LJ.

It raises a few interesting questions which you might care to discuss.

Some questions:

1) How do you convince people to give podfic a try, if they don't intuitively grasp why it might be cool?
2) If a story only ever gets posted as podfic, are you keeping something from people who prefer text?
3) What are the arguments for and against simultaneous release of podfic and text versus podfic first release?
4) How do you present the idea to people of a staggered release without annoying them? How do you let the people who didn't want to listen to the audio that the text is finally available?
5) If a story is released podfic first, is that first podfic of it the canonical version of the text?
6) How do you write a story to be read?

Comments

[paraka]

I just wanted to chime in to say I think what you did was awesome and I'm so glad you did it. It really sucks that there's been this kind of reaction. Everyone, every single fan artist, makes the decision when they create of what kind of audience they expect to get. To me, your Spring Fling came off as being intended for those interested in podfic. I find it incredibly infuriating that all these people who are not the intended audience are getting upset about this. Especially since it's not like there's any shortage of fic or that you're completely denying them access to the fic. And, actually, full stop: I can't believe people are looking a gift horse in the mouth. Fandom is built on people providing their time and creative efforts for fun, no one owes anyone anything and we should all have the freedom to create whatever we want however we want.

Apologies if any of this sounds bullish or aggressive.
I don't actually think that came off as bullish or aggressive at all.

[pennyplainknits]

Thank you! I just wanted to do it as a bit of fun, and a different challange. Sadly it seems to have had the opposite affect and it has made me think twice about doing something similar in the future