The whys and hows of audiobooks, a conversation with Deyan Audio

BookNet Canada

For last month’s podcast episode we had planned to include bits of an interview BookNet Canada Research Associate Shimona Hirchberg had with Jamie Dupras and Jeff Guillot from Deyan Audio but the conversation was so rich we decided to share the full interview in this month’s episode. Among other things, they talked about -the nitty-gritty of audiobook production and distribution; -audiobooks in languages other than English; -casting and working with diverse narrators; and -the Canadian audiobook market. (Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2020/7/27/podcast-the-whys-and-hows-of-audiobooks-a-conversation-with-deyan-audio) Links: -BookNet Canada's Press Play: Audiobook Use in Canada 2020: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/press-play-audiobook-use-in-canada-2020 -ACP symposium report Audiobooks: Building Capacity for Canadian Creation and Publishing: https://publishers.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ACP_audiobook_report_FA_05-11-2020_SM.pdf -ACP and eBOUND's Accessible Publishing Research Project: https://www.eboundcanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ACP_eBound_AccessibilityReport_final.pdf -Audiobook quality control service Pozotron: https://www.pozotron.com/ -Deyan Audio website: https://deyanaudio.squarespace.com/ -Deyan Audio actor index for casting: https://www.deyanaudio.com/castingindex.html -Fortune article: Chef Marcus Samuelsson Wants to Redefine Cookbooks Through Audiobooks: https://fortune.com/2019/06/29/marcus-samuelsson-audiobook/ -"How Do YOU Read?" study conducted by the National Network of Equitable Library Service: https://nnels.ca/HDYR-KeyFindings