Dreamseed to Launch Definitive Audio Theatre Web-Publisher 'Echo Fiction'
August 18, 2008
Press Release
NEW WEB-BASED CONTENT PUBLISHER AND WEBSITE BRINGS AUDIO THEATRE PRODUCTION GROUPS TOGETHER FOR THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND HIGHLY FOCUSED ONLINE AUDIO-THEATRE-SPECIFIC RESOURCE & STORE EVER ASSEMBLED
Echo Fiction CEO Xander Davis
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - August 18, 2008 - Dreamseed LLC will launch the largest web-based audio theatre publication source ever assembled with new and original audio theatre productions, it was announced today by Xander Davis, Chief Executive Officer, Dreamseed LLC and its new subsidiary Echo Fiction LLC. The audio-rich site at
www.echofiction.com will debut early this Fall with approximately one hundred hours of full-length content, clips, bonus features, and interviews, representing content from independent audio theatre production groups and voice actors worldwide.
The Echo Fiction website will also serve as a collective for voice actors, writers, directors, sound mixers, and producers, building a community of talent. It will allow audio theatre production groups to network and share access with that talent. Tutorials and sound effects stock media, such as the low-cost Dreamseed Audio Library ST 01 digital pack, will also help aspiring producers of audio theatre create new content.
At the website's launch, Echo Fiction's seven international founding content partners are Darker Projects LLC, Decoder Ring Theatre, Dream Realm Enterprises, Dreamseed LLC, Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, Final Rune Productions, and STH Productions. Echo Fiction anticipates adding new content partners every week after the site has launched, and is now accepting requests for additional partners.
ECHO FICTION'S SEVEN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDING CONTENT PARTNERS
Darker Projects LLC, Decoder Ring Theatre, Dream Realm Enterprises, Dreamseed LLC, Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, Final Rune Productions, and STH Productions
"Echo Fiction is a long time coming," says founding content partner Frederick Greenhalgh of Final Rune Productions and Radio Drama Revival. "Audio theatre's been missing a central place to listen and discover new work, and I think Echo Fiction will provide an invaluable service to audio drama fans and new listeners alike."
"Echo Fiction has a selection of the best audio productions available online," says Executive Producer Eric Busby of Darker Projects, another founding content partner. "I am very pleased that Darker Projects is able to be involved in this endeavor."
From the popular Decoder Ring Theatre group, founding content partner Gregg Taylor says, "One of the great challenges about producing original audio drama content for the Internet is the absence of casual exposure. Unlike other media, you never gain audience passively... flipping channels or riding the tailcoats of a popular timeslot... it just isn't possible. By collecting original audio producers under one roof, Echo Fiction gives producers a great opportunity to reach new audiences - and provides audiences with a great one-stop-shopping opportunity to enjoy the best in new audio drama!"
Every partner of Echo Fiction agrees. Jonithan Patrick Russell, a founding content partner from Dream Realm Enterprises, adds, "Echo Fiction will be a wonderful tool to bring an even wider audience to DRE! We're very thankful for the opportunity!"
Another founding content partner, Scott Hickey of STH Productions, adds, "Whatever your tastes in audio theater, from sci-fi to horror to mysteries, Echo Fiction has it all. It is a great way for producers to connect with the listening public."
Xander Davis created and established Echo Fiction after identifying a need in the development and business of independent audio theatre production with his own production company, Dreamseed. "Before Echo Fiction, all serious audio theatre groups were self-publishing, which not only made it hard for themselves to promote their own content, but it also made it difficult for consumers to discover it and generate sales and advertising revenue at a material level," Davis says.
"Now with Echo Fiction," Davis concludes, "all of that is taken care of by bringing audio theatre producers and voice actors together under one tent, freeing up producers to just focus on making content, while all producers at Echo Fiction collectively benefit from professional web-design, graphic-design, a boost of attention and thus a boost of revenue. It's all possible by having the market focused to a centralized source."
The Echo Fiction Brand Logo
Echo Fiction is a publisher only, leaving production of first-party titles to its parent company Dreamseed, where it is producing its brand new sci-fi series "Soul Rift", set to debut on Echo Fiction at launch.
All production groups that contribute content to Echo Fiction will do so non-exclusively and retain full copyright. Echo Fiction generates revenue by earning a royalty of digital content sales from its own online store and selling advertising banners and audio clips inserted into free streaming audio on its website. Likewise, content partners earn a royalty from Echo Fiction's online store.
TO READ MORE:
http://www.echofiction.com
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