Wednesday Wisdom: Audio market trends with Bookwire
Catch up with our Wednesday Wisdom Q&A with Videl Bar-Kar, Global Head of Audio at Bookwire, and Lindsey Mooney, who is former Managing Director o…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Audio sales at Penguin Random House
Catch up with our Wednesday Wisdom Q&A session with Han Ismail, Audio Sales Manager at Penguin Random House. Find out more about the most importan…
Beyond the book: How audiobooks have expanded on other formats across publishing
Across the UK audio publishers are joining forces this week to raise the profile of audiobooks as part of the #LoveAudio campaign. Each year the…
Wednesday Wisdom: Audio distribution with Ingram and xigxag
Catch up with our Wednesday Wisdom Q&A with Agustina Casal, Senior Manager of Digital Sales at Ingram Content Group, and Kelli Fairbrother, co-fou…
Pushing the boundaries with children’s audio production
What specific squawk would the cleverest raven in the universe make if she was in the middle of Ancient Egypt, on the run, and trying…
Building an audio list: how collaboration helped us achieve our business goals
The last time Apple made a MacBook with a CD drive was in 2016. That same year, Audible reported that a record 2 billion hours…
Why the audio boom needs to create change in children’s audiobooks
The pandemic boom in the audio market has given publishing a renewed buzz around the format. I experienced it myself being at home with my…
Wednesday Wisdom: How to make audiobooks thrive on Spotify
Catch up with our Wednesday Wisdom Q&A with Carla Herbertson, Head of International Audio Content for digital distributor Zebralution, and Alison …
The skills you need to launch a podcast
Podcasts have seen a boom in the numbers of listeners and downloads in the UK in the last few years and even more so in…
Listen up! Audiobooks finally get a standard
Audiobooks are cool. They are so cool that they don’t need no rules. Having worked with ebooks for a long while, where we have had…
Recording audiobooks remotely: top tips for ‘home studio’ success from award-winning narrators
We’re proud to present a first for the BookMachine blog: this article by Helen Lloyd of Raconteurs Audio LLP has an audio version as well…
How to choose the right narrator for your audiobook
James Faktor is both Publishing Director for Lume Books, a digital-first indie press, and Founder of USound, an audiobook production service that helps authors and…
How do you record an audiobook during lockdown?
As we all adapt to different ways of working in the current climate, one challenge for Penguin Random House Audio was how to keep recording…
Wednesday Wisdom: Live interview with Alice Lloyd (Trapeze)
The story of Hag: how a fiction podcast became a book
Last August, Harriet Poland of Audible described the genesis of the Hag podcast here on the BookMachine blog. In this new post, Rose Tomaszewska of…