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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
 Guh! I'm floored! Mech Muse's first issue is now available for free as an ad supported podcast! Previously available for just $7.00 by PayPal the entire first issue is now available FOR FREE!!! Do it now, download all 13+ hours of this amazing first issue via this feed: http://www.mechmuse.com/issues/spring-06/cover# The AWESOME stories included in the STUNNING first issue are:  After A Lean WinterBy David Farland; Read by Rick Jelinek 1 Mp3 File - 1 Hour 1 Minute 47 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]  On My Way To Paradise (Chapters 1 - 6 of a serialized novel)By David Farland; Read by David Wilkinson 3 MP3 Files - Approx 6 Hours [UNABRIDGED - but not yet completed]  The Second RatBy David Barr Kirtley; Read by Bob Barnes 1 Mp3 File - 40 Minutes 46 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]  Veil Of IgnoranceBy David Barr Kirtley; Read by Rick Jelinek 1 Mp3 File - 25 Minutes 38 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]  Primary ColorsBy Richard Raleigh; Read by Bob Barnes 1 Mp3 File - 58 Minutes 28 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]  The River Is ForeverBy Edmund R. Schubert; Read by Rob Moffat 1 Mp3 File - 13 Minutes 33 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]  Expensive GiftsBy Miles Romney; Read by Ken Richman 1 Mp3 File - 41 Minutes 52 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]  The Elf TrapBy Francis Stephens; Read by Katherine Grey 1 Mp3 File - 58 Minutes 1 Second [UNABRIDGED] The stories each have a few commericals lasting a couple minutes. They are well produced and don't interrupt the flow of the storytelling. But before I let you go off perhaps you'll take a moment and consider reading this interesting email that we recieved from MechMuse editor Miles Romney: Dear MechMuse friends, All of us at MechMuse wish to thank you, deeply, for your support and encouragement over these last several months. We have received so many kind notes expressing gratitude for the product and enthusiasm for the future of MechMuse. We accomplished something significant with our first issue. We released a professionally produced, finely crafted anthology of audio short content. We are proud of what we have achieved, and grateful for the contributions of every writer, performer, artist, musician and listener involved. While preparing our Summer issue for release, we have also been working to significantly upgrade our website to accommodate a change in our business model and positioning. MechMuse will be pursuing a new revenue strategy based on advertising more than on subscriptions, and on positioning MechMuse as a free podcast with tasteful audio ads interspersed within our content. Though our content will be available with commercials free of charge, our subscribers will continue to enjoy premium service, including access to full issues at a higher compression quality and completely without ads. We have also been altering the layout of MechMuse.com to provide better "at a glance" coverage of each audio feature, and to make it much, much easier to download and listen to content. With the release of our updated website, the free and subscriber editions of MechMuse will be available as RSS podcasts (the subscriber edition, of course, available securely only to subscribers), which means that all you should ever need to do is paste our podcast address into your jukebox application (iTunes, for example) under the "subscribe to podcast" feature. All tracks will automatically be downloaded into your jukebox, ready for listening. As new tracks and new issues are released, they will automatically be imported into your jukebox, without you ever having to download and manually import another ZIP archive. On August 11th, we will release our updated website along with the free edition of our Spring issue. On August 21st, the initial feature offerings of both the free and subscriber editions of our Summer issue will go live (additional tracks will be released incrementally, just as they were in our Spring issue). Every one of you has helped to make MechMuse happen through your belief in the project and your appreciation of the publication. We are especially grateful to those of you who ratified our long-term vision by purchasing six-issue subscriptions. We thank you for your patience as we have paused to observe the sales trends following our creative efforts, and have made decisions to adjust accordingly. We have not received a single angry note concerning the changes to our publication schedule, or the delay in publishing our Summer issue. Many have written kind inquiries expressing encouragement and anticipation for the upcoming issue. This is extraordinary. In our subscribers we have found fellow enthusiasts for short audio fiction, fellow collaborators in building something wholly different on the web, and friends. We have faced difficult decisions these past months. Though enthusiasm for our first issue ran high among a core group of believers, drawing the attention of the market at large has proven difficult. Many thousands of dollars have been spent in print advertising, exhibiting at fan conventions, and distributing coupons and sample CDs. These efforts have proven ineffective. We remain confident that ours is a marketable product, but successfully communicating this new idea to the correct market segment is proving a real challenge. In addition to the introduction of the free edition and the upgrades to MechMuse.com, we made a decision to completely eliminate salaries for all MechMuse employees, and push 100% of subscription proceeds out to our contributors. Everyone at MechMuse is now working on a volunteer basis, and as before, all of our talented writers, performers, artists and musicians are working for royalties. This has necessitated a cut-back in our production schedule, resulting in our new quarterly publication plan. This gives us the flexibility to explore our market niche for longer, without worrying about significant operating overhead, and also gives us more time to capitalise on the content of each issue. These technical changes and shake-ups in organisation and strategy have put us behind on release of our Summer issue. I want to reassure you that the audio has been produced, and sounds fabulous. We have two exciting stories from New York Times Best Seller Kevin J. Anderson, as well as another story from New York Times Best Seller David Farland and the continuation of his gripping novel On My Way to Paradise. Along with a group of thought-provoking short stories, we are also releasing the first several chapters of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed stunningly by British voice-actor Ken Richman, with a haunting original score by James Guymon. We have a diverse marketing and PR plan that will go into play following the August 21st release of our Summer issue. With our free editions, not only will we be able to grab listeners from amongst those who are interested but not sure enough of this newfangled idea to put money down, but now that ours is a free offering we'll have access to an enormous podcast audience and be able to approach them through a wider variety of established communities and publications. This is an exciting time. We've had to tighten our belts, yes, but we feel that our new strategy has tremendous potential. We are dedicated to making this publication a success so that you, our listeners, may continue to enjoy well-written, well-produced and affordable audio short fiction! Again, we thank you for your patience and understanding. The confidence of this core group of subscribers is one significant factor in our hope for the future of MechMuse. Onward! Sincerely, Miles Romney, Editor MechMuse Audio Magazine You've got to dig people as cool as this! Way-to-go Miles! Way-to-go-everyone who has contributed and is STILL contributing to MechMuse! You guys and gals SERIOUSLY ROCK!
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