[PRESS-RELEASE] StreetLib and Il Narratore Audiolibri: The Audiobook. Production, Distribution and the Market — Più Libri Più Liberi
Milan, Italy, November 26th 2019
“The Audiobook. Production, distribution and the market” is the title of a publishing professionals event organised by the Italy-based global books aggregator and publishing facilitator StreetLib and the Italy-based audiobooks production company Il Narratore Audiolibri.
The event is scheduled for December 5 at 5:30 pm in the Aldus Room at Più Libri Più Liberi 2019, the fair of small and medium publishing being hosted at the Rome Convention Center — La Nuvola.
During the meeting StreetLib CEO Giacomo D’Angelo will be joined by StreetLib’s Giovanna Russo and Il Narratore Audiolibri CEO Cristiana Giacometti to talk about the Italian and global prospects for audio (audiobooks, podcasts and other), with a focus on how audio can enrich the publisher’s catalog and performance.
The topics of production and investment costs will be discussed, along with processes, distribution channels and new business models, to enable small publishers to design their own audio publishing plan.
All publishers, independent authors and professionals in the publishing sector are invited to explore the proposed themes together with the speakers and to discuss the opportunities of this growing market.
Furthermore, StreetLib and Il Narratore Audiolibri will be available for meetings with authors and publishers every day from 4 to 8 December at the trade fair’s Business Centre.
For StreetLib, Giacomo D’Angelo said,
“While this event is clearly targetted at the domestic Italian audience, both StreetLib and Il Narratore AudioLibri are internationally focused and we will be following up this event with similar presentations in 2020 aimed at the global book markets.
Both StreetLib and Il Narratore Audiolibri are geared to global audio and podcast production and distribution in all languages and we welcome interest from corporate publishers, small presses and independent authors anywhere in the world.”
For Il Narratore Audiolibri Cristiana Giacometti said,
“ In the global Audiobook market, Italy is considered an emerging country, with an offer of around 3,000 titles in Audio, less than a tenth of the European offer. As always we are convinced that the sharing of knowledge and experiences can lead to trustworthy collaborations to give all Italian publishers the opportunity to invest to improve and enrich the performance and offer in quality Audiobook available in all global online stores. If it is true, that in Italy more than 6,000 new titles are published and made available each month, we have a great challenge to make them available, even if not all of them, in Audiobook.
From our experience also globally there is more and more interest in our ‘beautiful Italian language’, proof of this is also the increase in sales of Italian rights to the foreign markets. Thus we note that foreign publishers invest directly in the translation of their catalog in Italian and in audio production. These considerations are points of reflection for all of independent publishers and entrepreneurs linked to the publishing chain.”
Read more about the Più Libri Più Liberi 2019 programme here.
About StreetLib
StreetLib (www.streetlib.com) publishing facilitator and a global gateway to the $143 billion international book market, 70% of which is happening outside the USA, for publishers big and small. Whether you are an independent author or a multinational publisher, StreetLib offers unrivalled global reach through our worldwide network of retail, digital library and subscription service outlets. StreetLib distributes ebooks, audiobooks, comics and print-on-demand paperbacks. StreetLib’s standard model is no up-front fees and it takes just a 10% commission per sale made.
Contact us at info@streetlib.com
About il Narratore audiolibri:
Il Narratore Audiolibri is a publisher specialized in the production and publication of audiobooks and has been online since 1999. Currently, its store ilnarratore.com offers a rich catalog of audiobooks in MP3 digital format (over 2,000 titles). To date it has overseen his own production and on behalf of third parties; it has offered consultant services aimed at Italian and Foreign Publishers and Authors in order to enrich the editorial offer in the audiobook format in Italian language, with professional recording, made by narrators, actors and authors. Since 2007 it has also offered a digital distribution service for audiobooks to other publishers through the ilnarratore.com website store.
Contact us at redazione@ilnarratore.com
