2) Well, yes, you are keepking something from people who prefer text.
3) I would say the arguments are the same as the arguments for and against zines in the age of the internet. Once upon a time zines where the only way to access fanfic. With the rise of the internet, fanfic that was published in zines became something that was only accessible to a limited number of people while everyone else had to wait for the net release. Podfic-only or podfic-first publications recreate that dynamic. Even the linked anon thread reads like something from the zine debates.
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3) I would say the arguments are the same as the arguments for and against zines in the age of the internet. Once upon a time zines where the only way to access fanfic. With the rise of the internet, fanfic that was published in zines became something that was only accessible to a limited number of people while everyone else had to wait for the net release. Podfic-only or podfic-first publications recreate that dynamic. Even the linked anon thread reads like something from the zine debates.