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Staff Picks is dedicated to surfacing the best music, film, and art downloads on the Internet; digitally handmade by BitTorrent Publishers. Read on for this week’s finds. (image from www.vagabondish.com) In this week’s Staff Picks, go vagabonding with award-winning author and shoe-string traveler Rolf Potts. Vagabonding is an unconventional explorer’s guide to the universe; a…
For author Tim Ferriss, it’s a 100% increase in book sales. Audiobooks have become big business. They’re now a $1.2 billion industry. Unit sales of downloaded audiobooks grew by nearly 30% in 2011 alone. Within this context, what’s the value of giving one away? The real question is: what’s the point? For an author, what…
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the free web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for publishers. In this week’s Friday Download, we have The Metahack Interviews: A collection of interviews with some of the greatest thinkers and creators of our time. Avi Solomon shares the audio and text from his discussions…
What’s the value of a free read? Last November, we partnered with best-selling author Tim Ferriss to find out. We handed out sections and drafts from his new book, The 4-Hour Chef, to BitTorrent fans. In turn, 880 thousand of them checked out the hardcover on Amazon. And 2012’s boycotted book about meta-learning hit 2013’s…
This week, we helped make The 4-Hour Chef the first BitTorrent bestseller, thanks to users like you. We discussed the future of media distribution with The New York Times. We talked new business models for the music industry with TechCrunch. And we got into what it takes to build a better web with our own Patrick Williams, creator of the Torque…
Last week, we released an exclusive first look at Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Chef to help the author fight the Barnes & Noble boycott. By the end of today, Tim’s BitTorrent Bundle will have been downloaded over 300,000 times. The book’s Amazon page will have received an additional 85,000 visitors. And users like you will have made history: the first BitTorrent…
Update: Read through the end of this post for a video message from Tim Ferris to BitTorrent users. Last week, we announced a partnership with Tim Ferriss to help get the word out about The 4-Hour Chef. Yesterday, the book was launched on Amazon. Unfortunately, it probably won’t be at your local bookstore. Want to help…
This week we hung out with Tim Ferriss, and decided to take on traditional publishing. We brought new music from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to your client. We caught a screening of The Bones Brigade: A Documentary (Go. See. This.), and gave back to the Relief Effort in New York. We got to hear what’s good from software…