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Listening to the Future of Reading: Readers Advisory for Audiobooks

Listening to the Future of Reading: Readers Advisory for Audiobooks. KCMLIN/YA Workshop October 25, 2012 Kaite Mediatore Stover Kansas City Public Library kaitestover@kclibrary.org. Types of Audiobooks. Unabridged and abridged Single narrator, full-cast, multi-voiced, etc.

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Listening to the Future of Reading: Readers Advisory for Audiobooks

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  1. Listening to the Future of Reading: Readers Advisory for Audiobooks KCMLIN/YA Workshop October 25, 2012 Kaite Mediatore Stover Kansas City Public Library kaitestover@kclibrary.org

  2. Types of Audiobooks • Unabridged and abridged • Single narrator, full-cast, multi-voiced, etc. • Audio original

  3. Appeal Factors and Audio Books Standard appeal factors • Pacing • Characterization • Story Line • Frame Audible Presentation (Listenability)

  4. Listener Format Preferences • Unabridged vs. Abridged • CDs, Playaways, MP3-CDs, MP3 file • Length • Listening location

  5. Looking at the Listening • Summary • Voice quality • Pronunciation & Accents • Production quality • Sound effects & music • Chapter breaks, narrative bridges and book-marking • Packaging

  6. The Lingo • Technical abridged, unabridged, dramatization, full-cast narration, multi-voiced, partially voiced, straight read • Voicesounds: breathy, dry, gluey, juicy, lip smacks, mouth clicks, throat swallows • Production terms: woofing the mic, sibilants, plosives, mushy, peaky, hot sound • Voice descriptors: sparkle, lilt, sonorous, plummy, craggy, gravelly, smarmy, majestic, husky, lyrical, melodious

  7. Readers’ Advisory Tools Read On…Audiobooks Audiobooks for Youth Audio Books On the Go Books Out Loud Audiofile Awards—Audies, Grammys, The Odyssey Award, Booklist Voice of Choice, The Listen List Websites--Audio Publishers Association & AudioFile Magazine

  8. Narrator Lust • Barbara Rosenblat • Tom Stechschulte • Neil Gaiman • Stephanie Daniel • Kate Fleming/Anna Fields • Simon Vance • Scott Brick • Jim Dale • Charlotte Parry • Robin Sachs • Emily Grey

  9. Listen to a book in 15 minutes • Cover • Jacket blurb • Length • Listen • Extras • Appeal and audibility

  10. Want a handout? Go here Kaitestover.pbworks.com

  11. Fast Forward • Circulation • “The Book is Dead!”

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