What a real ‘audiobook’ revolution would look like
Richard Brooks is a Researcher at Coventry University and the Project Manager of the Arts and Humanity Research Council project ‘Hidden Story’. At the recent…
Audiobooks
Dive into the exciting world of audiobooks. From production and narration to distribution, learn how to create and sell high-quality audio content.
Here’s what book publishers can learn from the podcast model
Did you make the same mistake I did and assume podcasts are yesterday’s platform, that interest in them has plateaued (at best) and they’re not…
The business of books: Only connect
At the launch of BookMachine’s Snapshots III I kicked off the talks by raining hard on the book industry parade. (Sorry.) While I was on…
How to build a community: Interview with Will Rycroft
Will Rycroft is Community Manager at VINTAGE, and speaker at our next event, ‘How to build a community‘, on the 18th May. VINTAGE books have…
10 pieces of sound advice on audio publishing from #Quantum16
Videl Bar Kar (Penguin Random House, UK Audio), Claire Powell (audioBoom) and Adam Martin (Acast) formed the panel on Audio Publishing at the Quantum conference…
Penguin Random House on audiobooks: Hannah Telfer interview
Last week Penguin Random House announced that it’s establishing its audio business as a standalone division, Penguin Random House UK Audio. Here we interviewed Hannah Telfer,…
Startup snapshot: The Owl Field
Michel Lafrance is the founder and managing director for The Owl Field, an audio entertainment company specializing in 3D audio storytelling. In addition to managing…
On audio books and their future: Ali Muirden interview
Ali Muirden divides her time between running her own digital publishing company, Creative Content and working on a freelance and consultancy basis for her publishing…
Reading aloud: merging audio and text just got a lot easier
You may know that the modern EPUB3 standard has an inbuilt ability to hold audio and video, but one of the most intriguing aspects of…
Audio rights making waves
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. It’s a bit of a contradiction in terms but one of the…
David Hewson releases new novel exclusively as audiobook
Popular mystery author David Hewson will this week release his latest novel, The Flood. His fans, however, will not be able to read it –…
Simon Callow’s audiobook for dogs is now a thing that exists
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-peZNCkRzzw] The above is video footage of Simon Callow – who, up to this point, has been most widely acclaimed for his performances…
Bardowl launches streaming audiobook subscription service
In a move that will either be hailed as bringing publishing in line with the demands of a perma-streaming society or derided as pandering to…
Can Audio Books Be Cool?
I’m not going to lie – I’ve always thought audio books were lame as hell. The disappointing nephew of the hardback; the ugly duckling of…
Top 5 digital promo tools: Part 1 – Audio
In an era where you’re competing with umpteen websites, Facebook feeds, Twitter streams and mobile apps – promoting new books and publications can be somewhat…
