Cooking Up an Audiobook with Chef Marcus Samuelsson
Celebrated chef Marcus Samuelsson knows kitchens better than most people, but today he is mixing them up with chickens. “I never forgot that lesson, even though as a kid we didn’t kill the kitchens we ate for dinner,” reads Samuelsson. more...Extras! Extras! Audio Publishers Deliver
Whereas print books allow the reader the familiar heft of a novel, minimal eye strain, and the chance to inspire literary Missed Connections on Craigslist, and e-books offer a lightweight way to download up to 3,500 titles lightning fast and read everything from e-Fifty Shades of Grey to e-Think Like a Man without attracting undue attention, audiobooks aim for a different niche in the market. more...Behind the Audiobook Scenes with Celebrity Readers
On paper, getting Johnny Depp to narrate Keith Richards’s autobiography, Life, should have been simple: Richards’s representatives agreed to have Depp narrate and Depp’s representatives ironed out the deal with publisher Hachette Audio.While convincing a Hollywood celebrity to narrate an audiobook is usually a long shot, in this case it was the most straightforward part of the process: Depp had long been friends with the Rolling Stones’ guitarist. “He does an excellent impersonation,” says Michele McGonigle, director of audio production and executive producer at Hachette Audio. “They’re very close.” more...
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Sounds of Spring: Spring Audiobooks 2013
Variety rules when it comes to this year’s spring audio releases.
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S&S Releases Hemingway Collection
Papa is coming to audio in a major way. Simon & Schuster Audio has just published the Ernest Hemingway Audiobook Library, a complete collection of the author’s novels, nonfiction, and short stories.
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