The New Hit Factory: Podcasts and Audiobooks
What creators, performers, and rights owners should know when it comes to developing content for audiobooks and podcasts.
Podcasting Comes to Hollywood
Alexia Bedat advises podcast creators to learn the lessons of Hollywood contracts and to seek deals that build on the unique strengths of the new medium.
Talking Up Synthetic Narration for Audiobooks
While some books cannot reasonably become audiobooks – heavily illustrated children’s storybooks as well as art books and photography books – most fiction and many nonfiction titles likely can.
Book Sales Report Card A++
The report card on last year’s US trade book sales is A++, says NPD Bookscan’s Kristen McLean.
This Audiobook Was Narrated By No One
A shift from analog to digital voices would lower production costs, lead to greater choice in titles, and mean a lot less work for Hollywood actors between pictures.
Sharing Muslim American Stories
What it means to belong as a Muslim in America
Spreading The Word – Rights and Royalties For Podcasts And Spoken Word
Podcasts and other types of spoken word content are an especially rapidly growing category of streaming and downloadable audio.