This years AudioBook Revolution takes place on 1 December, full details below:
AudioBook
Revolution is back - 1st December
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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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The Bookseller, 10th Floor, Westminster Tower, 3 Albert Embankment,
London, SE1 7SP
Registered no 07201744.
Subscriptions: 01371 851879
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FutureBook is back
- 1st December 2017
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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.
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MORNING KEYNOTES ANNOUNCED:
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Chantal Restivo-Alessi
Chief digital
officer and executive vice president, international
HarperCollins
Publishers
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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.
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Vikki Chowney
Chief content
strategist
H&K
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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.
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Sara Lloyd in
conversation with Asi Sharabi
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Asi Sharabi
Co-founder and
chief executive
Wonderbly
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Sara Lloyd
Digital and
communications director
Pan Macmillan
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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.
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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!
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The Bookseller, 10th Floor, Westminster Tower, 3 Albert Embankment,
London, SE1 7SP
Registered no 07201744.
Subscriptions: 01371 851879
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