BookExpoCast

Hear Joseph Finder, author of Killer Instinct; Mark Bowden, author of Guests of the Ayatollah; George Pelecanos, author of The Night Gardener; and Jim Belushi, author of Real Men Don’t Apologize!, talk about the writing (and audio production) of their latest audiobooks. Moderated by one of the industry’s leading audiobook narrators, Scott Brick.

Join a provocative and exciting discussion on the future of audio and publishing with Dan Cooper, president of Active Learning Technologies at Pearson Higher Education; Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and author of The Long Tail; Denise Mroz, former VP and anti-piracy counsel for the Recording Industry of America; and Marshall Phelps, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property for Microsoft.

Laura Wilson, director of production for Audio Renaissance, moderates an insightful panel discussion on new advancements in audio publishing including everything you ever wanted to know about podcasts, metadata, file formats, CD production and more. With John Colucci, independent producer; Cartwright Reed, president of Audiofly Corp; Roberto Mighty, independent multimedia maven from Celestial Media; and Andrew DePuzzo, from Sonopress.

As a special bonus, and in honor of June being AudioBook Month, we are offering four podcasts of presentations at the Audio Publishers Association Conference (APAC) which was held in conjunction with BEA.

This first podcast features an interview with Mary Beth Roche, publisher for Audio Renaissance and the past president of the APA, and Anthony Goff, chair of the APA Conference, and associate publisher of Hachette Audio and Digital Media, which is sponsoring these bonus podcasts. Upcoming APAC podcasts include:

• Publishers Tools for New Technology
• Big Picture Thinking for the Future of Audio
• Heard Word: BEA’s Audiobook & Author Tea