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  1. In Part 9 of @eddietonkoi’s continuing series on audiobook narration, he gets less technical and explains how to make edited audio sound like a human would actually speak. I found it fascinating.

    podfeet.com/blog/2026/09/audio

    #Audiobooks

  2. What Sound Editing Does a Non-Fiction Audiobook Actually Need?

    A non-fiction audiobook may sound easy. There is a narrator. There is a manuscript. The narrator reads it. The audio is exported.

    But professional audiobook production is rarely that straightforward.

    In non-fiction, the quality of sound editing directly affects comprehension, credibility and listening fatigue. A great narration can still feel amateur if the underlying recording has inconsistent levels, distracting breaths, room noise, clicks or poor pacing.

    At CINEDRAMA ENTERTAINMENT, we look at audiobook editing as more than simply “cleaning an audio file.”

    It is about creating a listening experience that allows the content—and the narrator—to remain the focus.

    1. Noise Reduction Without Destroying the Voice

    The first step is identifying unwanted background noise:

    • Air-conditioner and fan noise
    • Electrical hum
    • Computer noise
    • Room ambience
    • Traffic or environmental sounds
    • Recording-system noise

    The challenge is not simply removing everything. Over-processing can make a human voice sound artificial, thin or metallic. Professional editing means finding the balance between a clean recording and a natural-sounding voice.

    2. Breath Editing

    Breaths are part of natural speech. Removing every breath can make narration sound unnatural. Leaving every breath untouched can make the audiobook feel distracting or poorly edited.

    For non-fiction, breath editing is usually about control rather than elimination.

    Unusually loud breaths, distracting gasps and awkward pauses may need attention, while natural breathing can remain part of the performance.

    3. Clicks, Mouth Noise & Recording Artifacts

    Close-mic narration can reveal details that are almost invisible during recording. Placement of the mic causes variations.

    Mouth clicks, lip smacks, saliva noise, small pops and other artifacts can become surprisingly noticeable through headphones.

    These are often handled individually or selectively. The goal isn’t to make the narrator sound “processed.”

    The goal is to make the listener stop noticing the recording and start focusing on the content.

    4. Pacing & Pauses

    This is particularly important for non-fiction. A business book, biography, self-help book or educational title contains information that listeners need to absorb.

    If sentences run together, important ideas can lose impact. If pauses are excessive, the audiobook can feel slow.

    Good editing considers:

    sentence → pause → idea → emphasis → transition

    The editor is therefore not only working with sound.

    They are working with how information is received by the listener.

    5. Volume & Dynamic Consistency

    Imagine listening to an audiobook where one paragraph is quiet and the next suddenly becomes much louder.

    You turn up the volume. Then the narrator becomes loud.

    You turn it down again. That is a production problem.

    Professional editing aims for consistent perceived loudness while preserving enough natural dynamics in the narrator’s performance.

    This becomes especially important when an audiobook will be consumed across headphones, phones, cars and smart speakers.

    6. EQ & Voice Clarity

    Equalization can help improve intelligibility and reduce unwanted tonal characteristics.

    Depending on the recording, an editor may need to address:

    • Excessive low-frequency rumble
    • Boxy or muddy sound
    • Harsh high frequencies
    • Nasal characteristics
    • Lack of vocal presence

    But EQ should serve the voice—not impose a completely different voice on the narrator.

    A professional audiobook should still sound like the person who recorded it.

    7. Editing Mistakes Without Killing the Performance

    Non-fiction narration can contain:

    • Mispronunciations
    • Repeated words
    • False starts
    • Incorrect readings
    • Long hesitations
    • Sentence corrections
    • Page-reading mistakes

    These may need to be edited carefully.

    The important word is carefully.

    If an edit removes too much of the natural performance, the listener may hear unnatural jumps, changes in ambience or altered pacing.

    A good edit should be heard as little as possible.

    8. Chapter & Section Transitions

    Non-fiction audiobooks often contain multiple chapters, sections, lists, quotations, references and sometimes supplementary material.

    These transitions need to feel intentional.

    Silence, spacing and chapter openings should create a consistent listening structure rather than making the audiobook feel like a collection of unrelated recordings.

    9. Mastering & Delivery

    Editing is not the final step.

    The completed audiobook needs to be prepared according to the technical requirements of its intended distribution platform.

    That can involve checking:

    • Overall loudness
    • Peak levels
    • Noise floor
    • File format
    • Sample rate
    • Channel configuration
    • Beginning and ending silence
    • Chapter/file structure
    • Technical consistency across the entire title

    A beautifully edited chapter is not enough. The complete audiobook needs to work as one professional product.

    The Bigger Picture

    This is why we believe audiobook production should not be treated as simply:

    “Record → Clean → Export.”

    A professional non-fiction audiobook involves a chain of decisions:

    Narration → Editing → Restoration → Pacing → Voice Processing → Consistency → Mastering → Delivery

    Every stage influences the final listening experience.

    And perhaps the most important principle is this:

    The best audiobook editing is often the editing the listener never notices.

    The listener shouldn’t be thinking about noise reduction, EQ, compression or breath editing.

    They should be thinking about the idea, story or knowledge being communicated.

    That is the real purpose of sound editing.

    The Audible Craft

    In this newsletter, we’ll explore the production decisions behind professional audiobooks—from narration and sound editing to mastering, audio storytelling and the evolving role of technology in the audiobook industry.

    Because when a book becomes audio, the words aren’t the only thing that need to be heard.

    Produced by Cinedrama Entertainment — Where Creativity Takes Center Stage.

    #audible #audio #audiobook #audiobooks #books #cinedramaentertainment #production #rakutenkobo #reading #spotify #writing #youtube
  3. I was toiling through Cat Rambo's "You Sexy Thing": only listened to 4.5 hours in 10 days and it felt like a chore: inconsistent pacing, drawn out descriptions, unannounced character changes. Dropped it.

    Started "Only Human" by Sylvain Neuvel yesterday morning and I'm already 5 hours into. This series is catnip to me.

    Yup, some #audiobooks are really clicking with me and other are not. I should definitely drop books faster.

  4. I was toiling through Cat Rambo's "You Sexy Thing": only listened to 4.5 hours in 10 days and it felt like a chore: inconsistent pacing, drawn out descriptions, unannounced character changes. Dropped it.

    Started "Only Human" by Sylvain Neuvel yesterday morning and I'm already 5 hours into. This series is catnip to me.

    Yup, some #audiobooks are really clicking with me and other are not. I should definitely drop books faster.

  5. I was toiling through Cat Rambo's "You Sexy Thing": only listened to 4.5 hours in 10 days and it felt like a chore: inconsistent pacing, drawn out descriptions, unannounced character changes. Dropped it.

    Started "Only Human" by Sylvain Neuvel yesterday morning and I'm already 5 hours into. This series is catnip to me.

    Yup, some #audiobooks are really clicking with me and other are not. I should definitely drop books faster.

  6. I was toiling through Cat Rambo's "You Sexy Thing": only listened to 4.5 hours in 10 days and it felt like a chore: inconsistent pacing, drawn out descriptions, unannounced character changes. Dropped it.

    Started "Only Human" by Sylvain Neuvel yesterday morning and I'm already 5 hours into. This series is catnip to me.

    Yup, some #audiobooks are really clicking with me and other are not. I should definitely drop books faster.

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  12. Nearly completed my second listen of the audiobook Mindset by Carol Dweck. Dweck is the Psychologist who came up with the idea of growth vs fixed mindsets after observing different attitudes to learning, challenge and failure in her experiments with children.

    It's mostly good though much of it is not terribly new to me given that so many books mention Dweck's work.

    I do like the section on the complicated minefield of praise, and what parents say and kids hear, for example: "You're so brilliant, you got an A without even studying" can be interpreted as "I better quit studying or they won't think I'm brilliant".

    But something has been bothering me throughout the book and I just worked out what it is. The book never seems to acknowledge the existence of privilege or bias, and instead pretty much lumps all responsibility for failure on the individual.

    When the book says (to paraphrase), "A fixed-mindset person uses failure as an opportunity to blame, instead of an opportunity to learn how to succeed next time", a reader might reasonably interpret this as, "Don't draw attention to the systemic bias that is holding me back, as that would be fixed-mindset thinking, I just need to try harder".

    #audiobooks #books #science

  13. Nearly completed my second listen of the audiobook Mindset by Carol Dweck. Dweck is the Psychologist who came up with the idea of growth vs fixed mindsets after observing different attitudes to learning, challenge and failure in her experiments with children.

    It's mostly good though much of it is not terribly new to me given that so many books mention Dweck's work.

    I do like the section on the complicated minefield of praise, and what parents say and kids hear, for example: "You're so brilliant, you got an A without even studying" can be interpreted as "I better quit studying or they won't think I'm brilliant".

    But something has been bothering me throughout the book and I just worked out what it is. The book never seems to acknowledge the existence of privilege or bias, and instead pretty much lumps all responsibility for failure on the individual.

    When the book says (to paraphrase), "A fixed-mindset person uses failure as an opportunity to blame, instead of an opportunity to learn how to succeed next time", a reader might reasonably interpret this as, "Don't draw attention to the systemic bias that is holding me back, as that would be fixed-mindset thinking, I just need to try harder".

    #audiobooks #books #science

  14. Nearly completed my second listen of the audiobook Mindset by Carol Dweck. Dweck is the Psychologist who came up with the idea of growth vs fixed mindsets after observing different attitudes to learning, challenge and failure in her experiments with children.

    It's mostly good though much of it is not terribly new to me given that so many books mention Dweck's work.

    I do like the section on the complicated minefield of praise, and what parents say and kids hear, for example: "You're so brilliant, you got an A without even studying" can be interpreted as "I better quit studying or they won't think I'm brilliant".

    But something has been bothering me throughout the book and I just worked out what it is. The book never seems to acknowledge the existence of privilege or bias, and instead pretty much lumps all responsibility for failure on the individual.

    When the book says (to paraphrase), "A fixed-mindset person uses failure as an opportunity to blame, instead of an opportunity to learn how to succeed next time", a reader might reasonably interpret this as, "Don't draw attention to the systemic bias that is holding me back, as that would be fixed-mindset thinking, I just need to try harder".

  15. Nearly completed my second listen of the audiobook Mindset by Carol Dweck. Dweck is the Psychologist who came up with the idea of growth vs fixed mindsets after observing different attitudes to learning, challenge and failure in her experiments with children.

    It's mostly good though much of it is not terribly new to me given that so many books mention Dweck's work.

    I do like the section on the complicated minefield of praise, and what parents say and kids hear, for example: "You're so brilliant, you got an A without even studying" can be interpreted as "I better quit studying or they won't think I'm brilliant".

    But something has been bothering me throughout the book and I just worked out what it is. The book never seems to acknowledge the existence of privilege or bias, and instead pretty much lumps all responsibility for failure on the individual.

    When the book says (to paraphrase), "A fixed-mindset person uses failure as an opportunity to blame, instead of an opportunity to learn how to succeed next time", a reader might reasonably interpret this as, "Don't draw attention to the systemic bias that is holding me back, as that would be fixed-mindset thinking, I just need to try harder".

    #audiobooks #books #science

  16. Nearly completed my second listen of the audiobook Mindset by Carol Dweck. Dweck is the Psychologist who came up with the idea of growth vs fixed mindsets after observing different attitudes to learning, challenge and failure in her experiments with children.

    It's mostly good though much of it is not terribly new to me given that so many books mention Dweck's work.

    I do like the section on the complicated minefield of praise, and what parents say and kids hear, for example: "You're so brilliant, you got an A without even studying" can be interpreted as "I better quit studying or they won't think I'm brilliant".

    But something has been bothering me throughout the book and I just worked out what it is. The book never seems to acknowledge the existence of privilege or bias, and instead pretty much lumps all responsibility for failure on the individual.

    When the book says (to paraphrase), "A fixed-mindset person uses failure as an opportunity to blame, instead of an opportunity to learn how to succeed next time", a reader might reasonably interpret this as, "Don't draw attention to the systemic bias that is holding me back, as that would be fixed-mindset thinking, I just need to try harder".

    #audiobooks #books #science

  17. Medium Playback is still a fantastically narrated podcast even though it is over. They now have TTS on all their stories, but for a while, I loved the production value of these narrations. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ #Audiobook #Audiobooks

  18. Medium Playback is still a fantastically narrated podcast even though it is over. They now have TTS on all their stories, but for a while, I loved the production value of these narrations. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ #Audiobook #Audiobooks

  19. Medium Playback is still a fantastically narrated podcast even though it is over. They now have TTS on all their stories, but for a while, I loved the production value of these narrations. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ #Audiobook #Audiobooks

  20. Medium Playback is still a fantastically narrated podcast even though it is over. They now have TTS on all their stories, but for a while, I loved the production value of these narrations. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ #Audiobook #Audiobooks

  21. Medium Playback is still a fantastically narrated podcast even though it is over. They now have TTS on all their stories, but for a while, I loved the production value of these narrations. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ #Audiobook #Audiobooks

  22. Les livres audio, c'est toute une histoire de narrateur ! 🗣 L'exemple des Hunger Games avec la voix française de Katniss m'a direct plongée dedans mais ce n'est le cas de tous 👀

    #livresaudio #audible #Egirl #hungergames #audiobooks

  23. Do not buy these books if you want a full story. He ends this one right at the explosion happens. I don't mind multiple books but each should tell a full story. Not end abruptly mid-action. Nothing in the Title Details tells you that you aren't getting the full book, either. I rewound a couple times because I thought I accidentally hit something on my player. Nope. It just cuts off so you will buy book 2. 2.5 stars for half a story.
    #Audiobooks #Bookstodon

  24. Do not buy these books if you want a full story. He ends this one right at the explosion happens. I don't mind multiple books but each should tell a full story. Not end abruptly mid-action. Nothing in the Title Details tells you that you aren't getting the full book, either. I rewound a couple times because I thought I accidentally hit something on my player. Nope. It just cuts off so you will buy book 2. 2.5 stars for half a story.
    #Audiobooks #Bookstodon

  25. Do not buy these books if you want a full story. He ends this one right at the explosion happens. I don't mind multiple books but each should tell a full story. Not end abruptly mid-action. Nothing in the Title Details tells you that you aren't getting the full book, either. I rewound a couple times because I thought I accidentally hit something on my player. Nope. It just cuts off so you will buy book 2. 2.5 stars for half a story.
    #Audiobooks #Bookstodon

  26. Do not buy these books if you want a full story. He ends this one right at the explosion happens. I don't mind multiple books but each should tell a full story. Not end abruptly mid-action. Nothing in the Title Details tells you that you aren't getting the full book, either. I rewound a couple times because I thought I accidentally hit something on my player. Nope. It just cuts off so you will buy book 2. 2.5 stars for half a story.
    #Audiobooks #Bookstodon

  27. Do not buy these books if you want a full story. He ends this one right at the explosion happens. I don't mind multiple books but each should tell a full story. Not end abruptly mid-action. Nothing in the Title Details tells you that you aren't getting the full book, either. I rewound a couple times because I thought I accidentally hit something on my player. Nope. It just cuts off so you will buy book 2. 2.5 stars for half a story.
    #Audiobooks #Bookstodon

  28. Around the Book World: August 31, 2026

    Publishing analyst Carlo Carrenho kicks off the week with a review of the headlines from across the international publishing world.
    The post Around the Book World: August 31, 2026 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
    publishingperspectives.com/202

    #Audiobooks #BookSales #Consolidation #Copyright #Disney

  29. Around the Book World: August 31, 2026

    Publishing analyst Carlo Carrenho kicks off the week with a review of the headlines from across the international publishing world.
    The post Around the Book World: August 31, 2026 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
    publishingperspectives.com/202

    #Audiobooks #BookSales #Consolidation #Copyright #Disney

  30. Around the Book World: August 31, 2026

    Publishing analyst Carlo Carrenho kicks off the week with a review of the headlines from across the international publishing world.
    The post Around the Book World: August 31, 2026 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
    publishingperspectives.com/202

    #Audiobooks #BookSales #Consolidation #Copyright #Disney

  31. Around the Book World: August 31, 2026

    Publishing analyst Carlo Carrenho kicks off the week with a review of the headlines from across the international publishing world.
    The post Around the Book World: August 31, 2026 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
    publishingperspectives.com/202

    #Audiobooks #BookSales #Consolidation #Copyright #Disney

  32. Tauch ein in die bunte Hörbuch-Welt der Lunaria-Galaxie. Hier wechseln sich fesselnde Abenteuer mit emotionalen Storys ab – perfekt zum Durchstöbern! Und das kostenlos.
    www.youtube.com/@lunaria-galaxie.
    #Hörbuch #Audiobooks #Geschichten #bookstodon

  33. News Summary: Libro.fm Plans E-Book Launch, Expanding Support for Independent Bookstores

    Libro.fm announced at the end of last week that it will soon be offering e-books through its platform. This marks yet another significant step in the general trend toward making it easier for devoted readers who want to support local bookstores to do so in whatever format they read.
    The post News Summary: Libro.fm Plans E-Book Launch, Expanding Support for Independent Bookstores appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
    selfpublishingadvice.org/libro

    #audiobooks #Bookshoporg #ebooks #independentbookstores #Librofm

  34. Японский язык
    учебники словари курсы, аудио, тесты, учебная литература Japanese textbooks dictionaries courses, audio, tests, Японська мова підручники словники курси, аудіо, тести, навчальна література 日本教科書 辞書 コース、オーディオ、テスト、#教科書 🇯🇵
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/777

    Пруст Марсель Marcel Proust
    исследования badania дослідження research recherche 🦯🌂
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    Пруст Марсель Marcel Proust
    тексты Texte des textes texts тексти κείμενα teksty
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    Пруст Марсель Marcel Proust
    аудиокниги аудіокниги audiobooks livres audio Hörbücher
    #Пруст Марсель #Marcel Proust
    #аудиокниги #аудіокниги #audiobooks #livres #audio #Hörbücher
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/774

    Немецкая философия
    книги на немецком языке
    #German philosophy, books in german, Німецька філософія, книги німецькою мовою, #Deutsche Philosophie, Bücher auf deutsch
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/773

    Аудиокниги на немецком языке
    Belletristik auf Deutsch, Hörbücher, fiction in #German, #audiobooks, художня література німецькою, #аудіокниги
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/772

    Литература на немецком языке
    немецкий язык, художественная литература #Література німецькою мовою, німецька мова, художня література, #Literature in #German German language, fiction Literatur in deutscher Sprache #Deutsche Sprache, #Belletristik 🇩🇪
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/771

    Антуан де Сен-Экзюпери - Маленький принц - 1943 (20 языков) 🌹
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/770

    Корейский язык
    Korean Корейську мову 한국인 🇰🇷
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/769

    Литература на финском языке
    #Финляндия, финская литература, финский язык #Literature in Finnish Finland, Finnish literature, #Finnish language Література фінською мовою #Фінляндія, фінська література, фінська мова Suomenkielistä kirjallisuutta Suomi, suomalainen kirjallisuus, suomen kieli 🇫🇮
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/768

    Литература на шведском языке.
    Швеция, шведский язык Література шведською мовою. #Швеція, шведська мова. Literature in Swedish. #Sweden, #Swedish. Litteratur på svenska, #Sverige, svenska. 🇸🇪
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/767

    Литература на японском языке
    японский язык, #Япония, японская художественная литература. Literature in Japanese. #Japanese language, #Japan, Japanese fiction. Література японською мовою. японська мова, #Японія, японська художня література. 日本語の文学。 日本語、日本、日本のフィクション ⛩
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/766

    James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/765

    James Joyce - Ulysses
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/764

    James Joyce Джеймс Джойс
    #James Joyce #Джеймс Джойс
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/763

    Нейронные сети, нейросети, нейросетевое программирование
    Neuranets, neural network programming
    Нейронні мережі, нейромережі, нейромережеве програмування 🕸
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/762

    Big Data, Data Mining, Machine Learning
    Большие данные, анализ данных, машинное обучение
    Великі дані, аналіз даних, машинне навчання 👩‍💻
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/761

    D, Dart, Go, Groovy, Rust
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/759

    R статпакет 📊
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/756

    Web, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, PHP, Angular
    #Web, #HTML, #CSS, #XML, #JavaScript, #PHP, #Angular
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/753

    Алгоритмы, Компиляторы, Олимпиадные задачи, Криптография
    Algorithms, Compilers, Olympiad problems, Cryptography
    Алгоритми, Компілятори, Олімпіадні завдання, Криптографія 🫡
    #Алгоритмы, #Компиляторы, #Олимпиадныезадачи, #Криптография
    #Algorithms, #Compilers, #Olympiad problems, #Cryptography
    #Алгоритми, #Компілятори, #Олімпіадні
    завдання, #Криптографія
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/752

    Архитектура ЭВМ, Операционные системы
    Архітектура ЕОМ, Операційні системи Computer architecture, Operating systems 💻
    #АрхитектураЭВМ, #Операционныесистемы
    #АрхітектураЕОМ, #Операційнісистеми #Computer architecture, #Operating systems
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/751

    Игры, Графика, Звук, DirectX, OpenGL, Unity, Lua
    Ігри, Графіка, Звук, Games, Graphics, Sound 👾
    #Игры, #Графика, #Звук, #DirectX, #OpenGL, #Unity, #Lua
    #Ігри, #Графіка, #Звук, #Games, #Graphics, #Sound
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/749

    Микроконтроллеры, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, AVR, PIC, USB
    microcontrollers Мікроконтроллери
    #Микроконтроллеры, #Arduino, #Raspberry #Pi, #AVR, #PIC, #USB
    #microcontrollers #Мікроконтроллери
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/748

    Теория, Проектирование, Качество кода, Паттерны, UML
    Theory, Design, Code Quality, Patterns, UML
    Теорія, Проектування, Якість коду, Паттерни, UML
    #Теория, #Проектирование, #Качествокода, #Паттерны, #UML
    #Theory, #Design, #Code Quality, #Patterns, #UML
    #Теорія, #Проектування, #Якість
    коду, #Паттерни, #UML
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/746

    Технологии, библиотеки, фреймворки
    Технології, бібліотеки, фреймворки
    Technologies, libraries, frameworks
    #Технологии, #библиотеки, #фреймворки
    #Технології, #бібліотеки, #фреймворки
    #Technologies, #libraries, #frameworks
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/745

    Функциональное программирование
    Functional programming
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    программирование технологии програмування технології IT technology programming 🧑‍💻
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  35. News Summary: Amazon Raises KDP 70% Royalty Cap to $12.99; Bookshop.org Launches Audiobooks in UK

    Breaking news: as of July 7, Amazon has extended the upper limit of the 70 percent KDP royalty bracket to $12.99 from $9.99. That allows some books to have a higher ticket price reflecting an author's desire to price within the market, without having to take a hit down to the 35 percent royalty rate. For those in that $10–$12.99 range currently, you may be eligible to switch to 70 percent per the FAQs, but will not automatically be switched.
    The post News Summary: Amazon Raises KDP 70% Royalty Cap to $12.99; Bookshop.org Launches Audiobooks in UK appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
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    #Amazon #audiobooksubscription #audiobooks #Bookshoporg #Draft2Digital

  36. Fake Book Club Podcast @fakebookclubpodcast.wordpress.com@fakebookclubpodcast.wordpress.com ·

    Season 3 Episode 3: AI and the Creative Arts

    In this episode, we discuss AI in the creative arts! We have some very strong opinions about a recent book scandal, new music creations and bringing actors back from the dead. (AI was not used for this description)

    Listen Below!

    Listen on Spotify:

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MNQ4IZqHgjjUWcshAPb6x?si=fQuuYPjwRRqEgmOH6GBb_Q

    Listen on YouTube:

    https://youtu.be/9-zzGNiMlgg

    Also listen at the following places:

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    Things Discussed In This Episode

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    Liza Minnelli is among the artists who collaborated on a new AI-generated album

    An Update on Libro.fm’s Response to AI Narration

    Chicago Sun Times – 2025 “Summer Reading List

    Seemingly AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown have over 400,000 monthly Spotify listeners

    Publisher cancels horror novel’s release over AI claims

    Disclaimer: Links to Bookshop.org are affiliate links and the store will receive a small commission if you purchase through those links.

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  37. News Summary: Spotify Partners with Bookshop.org for Physical Book Sales, Introduces Page Match Feature

    Bookshop has been very busy of late. We ended last week with two significant stories related to the platform that lets people buy globally and support local bookstores. And we start this week with the biggest story of the trio.
    The post News Summary: Spotify Partners with Bookshop.org for Physical Book Sales, Introduces Page Match Feature appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
    selfpublishingadvice.org/spoti

    #audiobooks #Bookshoporg #indieauthors #PageMatch #physicalbooks