Google Play Books Expands AI Audiobook Narration – maybe
No, AI narration will not put competent real-life narrators out of jobs any time soon, if ever....
Apr 27, 2022 | AI, Audiobooks
No, AI narration will not put competent real-life narrators out of jobs any time soon, if ever....
by Mark Williams | May 10, 2022 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Sweden | 0 |
In the mature English-language markets, where unlimited subscription is still a dirty word,...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 6, 2022 | bookstores, Print, Publishing Brief, USA | 0 |
Perhaps the man with most cause for concern will be James Daunt, the Atlantic-straddling CEO of...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 5, 2022 | Digital Audio, podcasting, Social Media | 0 |
One might think, in a world of real doom and gloom, death and destruction, that there was no need...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 4, 2022 | Abu Dhabi, Book Fairs, Children's Books, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival is one of the biggest children’s literary events in the...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 2, 2022 | Metaverse, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
But isn’t “pretty ambiguous and hypothetical” exactly how we would have...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 27, 2022 | AI, Audiobooks | 0 |
No, AI narration will not put competent real-life narrators out of jobs any time soon, if ever....
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 26, 2022 | Africa, Book Fairs, Nigeria | 0 |
Nigeria and other national publishing events organisers across sub-Saharan Africa would do well to...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 24, 2022 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Japan | 0 |
At the consumer level the unlimited consumption model for a fixed monthly fee has enormous appeal,...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 21, 2022 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Europe, Global Publishing | 0 |
Nextory is said to be considering an IPO for the company, although in the light of recent...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 20, 2022 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, The Future of Publishing | 0 |
The industry is in danger of sleepwalking into the next crises (plural, and likely many), some of...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 20, 2022 | Africa, Book Fairs, Botswana, Global Publishing | 0 |
One of southern Africa’s biggest publishing events will be hybrid this year. The Gaborone...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 18, 2022 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Romania | 0 |
If Voxa can expand its markets following its current strategies of pursuing both public and...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 12, 2022 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Middle East, Qatar | 0 |
It will be after the summer that we begin to put together exactly how big is the book fair...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 9, 2022 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, podcasting | 0 |
For book publishers the message should be clear – audiobooks are a major asset but podcasts...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 8, 2022 | Audiobooks, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Storytel | 0 |
Unless a major opportunity to enter a mature market comes along akin to the Audiobooks.com...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 7, 2022 | Big Bad Wolf sale, Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Thailand, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
Those new to TNPS may be wondering if Big Bad Wolf has lost the plot taking a million...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 6, 2022 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, podcasting | 0 |
The one thing we can say with certainty is that paid-podcasting is here to stay, and is going to...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 3, 2022 | Ebooks, Print, USA | 0 |
Imagine for one second that it was ebook sales that had precipitously dropped 20% in the past week...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 3, 2022 | Big Bad Wolf sale, Book Fairs, Global Publishing, S.E. Asia, Thailand | 0 |
The 50th National Book Fair and the 20th Bangkok International Book Fair are still underway in...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Apr 2, 2022 | Africa, Algeria, Book Fairs, Global Publishing | 0 |
Running March 24 through 31 the eight day event averaged over 160,000 in-person visitors per day....
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