Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Audiobooks
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Audiobooks are often considered “accessible by default,” but in reality audiobooks aren’t fully usable by everyone in their current state. In this presentation we demonstrate the possibilities of audiobook accessibility.
This session covers accessibility issues in mainstream audiobook formats, the relevance of the DAISY standard for audiobooks, the new audiobook standard, and a discussion of various automated tools.
In this session for metadata mavens, #eprdctn professionals, and audio oracles alike, EDItEUR’s Chris Saynor discusses all facets of working with ONIX metadata for audio titles.
Audiobooks in Canada
- June 12, 2020
Arm yourself with the latest research and insights from BookNet Canada and its partners relevant to the audiobook market.
This presentation explains how audiobooks started in Brazil and the current status of the market there. It’s a broad overview using current data and talking about potential customers.
Readers are listening: Best practices in the production and distribution of audiobooks
- March 20, 2019
Jessica Albert (ECW Press) and Brendan Ouellette (Annick Press) discuss the many options available to large and small publishers when creating an audiobook program from the ground up.
Speccing the void: Adventures in the audiobooks abyss
- March 20, 2019
This presentation introduces everyone to the process of creating something where there wasn’t something before, and demoing what has been done so far for the audiobook spec.
The audiobook’s tale
- March 20, 2019
Tricia McCraney (Virtusales Publishing Solutions) offers insights on how you can anticipate everything from costing and estimating to contracting, rights sales, and royalties for audiobook formats.
Learn how Penguin Random House Canada adopted an audio-first strategy, hired Canadian acting talent, and recorded in studios both in-office and across the country.
This workshop includes hands-on training in assembling audiobooks from sample audio, QAing tablemates’ audio, and understanding required metadata.
Evolving technologies and ever-increasing demand have led to explosive growth in audio publishing. This panel will discuss the ways audio is transforming their organizations’ strategies and even business models.