Look Who’s Talking: Creating and Marketing a Self-Published Audiobook: David Markowitz

June 4, 2017

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In this talk, we’ll look at all of the options for turning your book into audio and the opportunities for getting it in front of your listeners' ears!

The last few years have seen huge changes in the audio landscape. There’s been steady growth in the audiobook market while the rest of the publishing industry has dropped or remained flat. Audiobook sales were up over 29% last year! At the same time, podcasts are hot and getting hotter. And then there’s the growth of audio operating systems and devices.

Put it all together and it’s clear the next few years are going to be big for audio. Are you ready?

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