Wednesday 18 October 2017

AudioBook Revolution at Futurebook 2017 - 1 December

This years AudioBook Revolution takes place on 1 December, full details below:

AudioBook Revolution is back - 1st December







1 December | 155 Bishopsgate
 
Introducing AudioBook Revolution


Since last year’s AudioBook Revolution Conference the audiobook business has established itself as the fastest-growing segment of the digital content market, with publishers’ audio revenues up by a third and Audible’s UK sales up by 54%. New players have entered the retail market in the past year, with the big guns Apple, Google and Spotify poised to make their play.

There is tussle over rights, with agents telling The Bookseller just last week that they were having to “fight harder” to retain rights for their authors as publishers seek to expand their audiobook offer. As with e-books, big publishers now want audio along with print.

Audible continues to make the pace, with its deal for Robert Webb’s How Not To Be A Boy appearing to have paid off. Its constant stream of standalone audio titles has also sent out a challenge to publishers and other audiobook businesses.

Meanwhile, the rise of voice-controlled devices, such as Alexa and Google Home, shows that there is a bright new future for the spoken word and interactive audio.

This year’s AudioBook Conference, part of FutureBook17, takes place on 1st December, and follows on from last year’s sell-out event. The focus will be on what we can learn from established retailers and publishers, such as Bolinda and Audible; how the new players will change the marketplace; how to run a successful audiobook campaign (and how the industry can sell more audiobooks); and how best to navigate the rights conundrum.

Dedicated panels will also look at how to create a successful audiobook business, and how best to make your own audiobooks. There’s also a special investigation into that £100m question: just how big is the audiobook business?

Earlybird tickets are available now from £259+VAT here.
 
Philip Jones
Editor
The Bookseller







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FutureBook is back - 1st December 2017













1 December | 155 Bishopsgate
 


DON'T DELEGATE THE FUTURE.

Don’t delegate it to the disruptors. Don’t be complacent. Don’t sit back and listen, or moan
about obstacles, or wait to see how it unfolds. Imagine it, own it and shape it, the way you
want it to be. Whether you’re a publisher, bookseller, agent or author - you are the future.

Make sure you join us for Europe's biggest and most important publishing innovation conference.
 








MORNING KEYNOTES ANNOUNCED:








Chantal Restivo-Alessi
Chief digital officer and executive vice president, international
HarperCollins Publishers 

Chantal is chief digital officer and Executive Vice President, International for HarperCollins Publishers, leading the overall global digital strategy and foreign language publishing program for the company. She works with each division around the world to manage commercial relationships with new and existing digital partners, grow digital revenues, and oversee the company’s developing foreign language publishing program. She is also a member of the company’s executive committee. She was appointed chief digital officer in May 2012, and expanded her role to executive vice president, international in April 2015.





Vikki Chowney
Chief content strategist
H&K

Vikki joined H+K in January 2015 to shape its approach to content + publishing strategy, embedding this across the agency, and with clients including Intel, HSBC & Amazon Web Services. She also leads social strategy globally for Huawei and is global CSD for Campari.

In 2016 she formed the agency’s data + Insights team and built Sherlock, H+K’s proprietary approach to mapping influencers, in collaboration with social listening experts Brandwatch. Now, she’s working on ContentNEXT, which helps clients explore next generation content formats through a series of technology partnerships.





Sara Lloyd in conversation with Asi Sharabi









Asi Sharabi
Co-founder and chief executive

Wonderbly






Sara Lloyd
Digital and communications director
Pan Macmillan





Asi Sharabi started Lost My Name as a DIY project with some friends. Pretty soon the project changed from being a labour of love and went on to become a funded tech + storytelling startup with the ambition of making millions of kids around the world more curious, clever and kind.  Recently rebranded to Wonderbly, they are a unique, award winning startup that lives on the intersection of storytelling, engineering, digital and print on a mission to help grownups inspire boundless self belief in every child.

Sara Lloyd is digital and communications director for the UK trade publishing house, Pan Macmillan, responsible for the group's digital and communications teams and strategy, covering marketing, publicity, digital media, consumer insight and corporate communications. She works on envisioning the way in which book, author, company and brand communications will evolve as readers change the way they consume content, exchange views, make choices and engage with brands. 



 





This year's FutureBook Conference once again has three different focuses, with the AudioBook Revolution and EdTech for Publishers (programmed in association with the EdTech Exchange) Conferences running alongside the main FutureBook Conference.

The earlybird rates are available until 5pm on 27th October. Don't miss out!









For speaker queries email molly.flatt@thebookseller.com | For event enquiries email grace.harrison@thebookseller.com | For sponsorship queries email emma.lowe@thebookseller.com
 













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Registered no 07201744.

Subscriptions: 01371 851879

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