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Giving away books as podcasts is new way to promote sales.
The San Francisco Chronicle Article, linked above, details the advent of reverse publishing. Okay, so they don't call it reverse publishing, but the traditional direction would be to take a book from written format to audio. With the ease of podcasting publishing has been turned in the opposite direction. Hence, reverse publishing.By generating an audience through storytelling the artist is using modern technology to tap into an ages old tradition. Through our storytellers and shamans, myths lead and guide humankind in life. Nobody tells it better than Joseph Campbell to Bill Moyers, in the Power of Myth series.
No matter the technology we employ, our stories come back to the basics.
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An elderly man I known, a Native American, likes to tell about the stories his Grandmother told him, that she learned at her grandparents knees. If you think about it, these are stories that probably go back in some form to the distant past. Many of these stories are combinations of fantasy (the badger talks) and human foibles (I find myself in these stories). The stories are often morality plays; the lessons teach values and cultures practices.
One of the things that has stuck with me was how the Native Americans had respect for everything. “Thank you grandfather tree, for letting me chop you down and make a canoe. Thank you brother deer, for giving my family food and skins to cover our feet.”
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