Everything You Want To Know About Audiobooks
Peter Lerman, who now sports a full beard, will talk about the art and commerce of audiobooks on Aug. 31. Photo from www.lermanvo.com
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Everything You Want To Know About Audiobooks

If you want to hear Peter Lerman’s raspy, folksy delivery as an accomplished audiobooks narrator you can easily go to his website at www.lermanvo.com. There he promises “the truth and nothing but the truth” — as he specializes in nonfiction (and has done the audio recording for nearly 100 books).

But his audiobook delivery is beside the point, at least for the purposes of Lerman’s in-person presentation by the Kent Memorial Library on Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 6 p.m. in the reading room.

Lerman’s talk will cover all aspects of audiobook conception, production and distribution. He will begin with who buys and listens to audiobooks, how they listen and why. He will explain how audiobooks are produced and he will talk about ways to self-publish an audiobook.  

Business topics touched upon will be the economics of production and distribution as well as industry trends, historic performance and future outlook. 

Lerman is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the Audio Publishers Association, is an Audible Approved Narrator and a winner of an AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award. 

This talk is free and open to the public; masks are required.

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