Interested In Podcasting and Podcasts? Check Out The Ear Worthy Book

 Most of the books on Amazon or on bookshelves about podcasting and podcasts are primers or manuals on how to begin and sustain a new podcast. 

How about a book for podcast listeners who want to know more about the industry while still gaining helpful tips and tools for aspirational podcasters?

 Check Out Ear Worthy on Amazon here in ebook or paperback format. 

 

 This book is not podcasting for dummies or a historical treatise of podcasting from mp3 files to the present day. Instead, the book strives to accomplish a few modest goals.

First, it will assist aspirational podcasters with tips and tools on developing, starting, and maintaining your podcast. The objective of this first section is to help you think about your podcast – whether it’s already on a podcast feed or still in your mind. Full disclosure: It’s not comprehensive, but it’s not meant to be. 

Therefore, section one is all about helping you either get started with your podcast or re-tool your existing one.

By contrast, Part Two discusses trends and commenting on industry developments. For many podcast followers, questions abound.
Why Podcasts Prove that Timing Is Everything? Podcasts attract “ears” because they’ve dived headfirst into the morass of timely topics, from racial justice to the pandemic.

How Have Podcasts Changed In The Last Decade? Podcasts are longer. They are obsessed with true crime and have outgrown the reformatted radio show template.

When Do We Know There Are Too Many Podcasts? There are well over two million podcasts, most of which are not active. When is “peak podcast?”

What if...Podcasts were around throughout U.S. History? An absurdist “what-if” about podcasts from the American Revolution to the present day.

Why Are True-Crime Podcasts So Popular? Why has podcasting become the birth factory for true-crime podcasts?

What were the Top 20 Podcasts For November 2020? A snapshot in time. What podcast listeners believe are their favorite podcasts.

Part Three eavesdrops on influential podcasters as they reveal their thoughts on their podcasts, podcasting, and the creative scaffolding they’ve constructed for their successful podcasts.

In this part, we’ll hear from Wendi Zuckerman from Science Vs, and her take on the assault on science by some politicians and news networks. Journalist Áine Cain and lawyer Kevin Greenlee will guide us through the horror of murders at a Burger King and other retail locations on their podcast The Murder Sheet.

Before the pandemic ended most live performances with an audience present, Faith Smith from Slate organized live podcast performances for several years and opened up a new monetization avenue for podcasters.

Then we’ll revisit our talk with songwriter Charlie Harding and hear his insights on how he and musicologist Nate Sloan build their highly successful music podcast – Switched On Pop – into a podcasting powerhouse.

Other interviews include Mike Carruthers of Something You Should Know. Carruthers reveals how he transitioned from radio to podcasting and the right way to conduct a podcast interview.

In the fourth part of the book, we’ve assembled a sampling of podcast reviews that offer an attribute that makes them valuable to podcasting as a medium and to the listeners.

Consider how long The Nutrition Diva with Monica Reinagel has been dispensing solid and sage advice about nutrition and health for more than 500 episodes. Compare Reinagel’s insight and data-driven mind to TV’s Dr. Oz, who Congress has reprimanded for reckless and unsafe health advice.

How about Twenty Thousand Hertz with Dallas Taylor? A podcast about ---- sound? Yet Taylor massages our ears in every episode with sonic narratives, such as the Ta-Dum! Music intro on Netflix, the Wilhelm Scream, Mel Blanc – the man of a thousand voices – and even the Up and Down tale of the Whoopee Cushion.

In Part Five, we look ahead and ponder the future of podcasting and obsess over dangers – real or imagined.

Finally, in Part Six, we recommend valuable podcast resources, where prospective or beginning podcasters can search for help, and where podcast fans can stay informed.

 

 Check Out Ear Worthy on Amazon here.