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

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

2) That would imply that people are entitled to that something in the first place, though, wouldn't it?

No, it doesn't imply anything like that. The question postulates that a text exists and that it is not made accessible and the question was if that does keep the text from the people who would prefer the text. The answer to that is yes. Whether this is something that should or shouldn't be done, should be seen as a good thing, a bad thing, anything in-between, or whatever judgment someone wants to infer from this, depends entirely on the person making that judgment. That doesn't change the basic fact that an existing text that is not made accessible is in fact not accessible to the people who would like to access that text.

[lavvyan]

Ah. I didn't realise you were going with the literal interpretation, sorry.