12/08/06
Long Tail Extract on iTunes
Thanks to Medialoper we realised that Apple’s iTunes store allows you to submit PDFs as a ‘podcast’ - thereby opening up the audience for the content you’re promoting. So, we uploaded the exclusive extract from The Long Tail yesterday, and - as if by magic - you can now download it for free from iTunes. I think that’s pretty cool.
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# Comment by Mike Coulter @ 2:59 pm, August 15, 2006:
Just downloaded the pdf on iTunes.
Funnily enough I’d only just I’d only just noticed that little book icon on iTunes when I downloaded a podcast from CC Chapman’s Managing the Gray.
But I think iTunes have missed a trick, (unless I’m being really dumb, which is quite possible.)
Right now it seems that when I click on a downloaded file like the LongTail book, it opens up on my desktop as a pdf.
Wouldn’t it have been great if I could have made a playlist from the downloaded book and loaded it on my iPod.
Either as text to read on the pod screen a la notes/contacts etc on the pod, or better still as playback on a video iPod?
Could the content not be formatted/bundled to playback on a video iPod, or hooked up to my TV screen video out style?
Maybe I’ve missed something obvious but if not, that would be cool for me. (Who needs a Sony e-reader now.)
Mike.
ps. Peter, did you consider bundling the trailer video in with the iTunes book excerpt download?
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