![]() ![]() Happy Again, currently on the Booktrack platform, by Jennifer E.Secrets & Lies, two stories by Kody Keplinger, August 8.It’s Just a Jump to the Left, a short story by Libba Bray, set for August 15.Beautiful Creatures: The Untold Stories by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, a six-novella set releasing August 8.Some of the titles the company says are coming in the Little, Brown program (its digital original imprint NOVL) include: On the other hand, a publisher might opt to have Booktrack’s staff create a soundtrack for a price of some $1,000 or more. This is the facility that educators have used in Booktrack Classroom, allowing students to generate their own soundtracks to text. The “studio” program offers dashboard access to audio so that authors can create their own soundtracks on a 70-30-percent royalty split. Work in 40 languages is included in Booktrack’s output, the company says, which comprises more than 16,000 titles. Press materials say that Booktrack has an international following of some 3 million authors, up from a reported 2.5 million last August. The basic concept of matching soundtracks to ebooks has remained in place since Paul Cameron’s co-founder, Mark Cameron, was interviewed briefly in 2011 at Frankfurt Book Fair by Publishing Perspectives‘ Erin. We expect they will add an extra layer of reading enjoyment for current fans, while bringing a whole new audience to the titles to experience the joy of reading and listening together.” “The soundtracks add a totally immersive, enhanced experience to the amazing Hachette titles we’ll be offering in our library.”įor Hachette, Senior Executive Director for Content Development Tina McIntyre says, “Booktrack is doing exciting things in the digital space. We are eager to have these newly imagined digital versions of original titles available. In his prepared statement about the new Little, Brown YA arrangement, Cameron is quoted saying, “Hachette Book Group has always been a leader in the publishing industry and is once again ahead of the curve by leveraging Booktrack’s technology, harnessing its unlimited creative potential for authors to deliver an immersive new experience to their readers. Smith, and Rebecca Serle-will be made available on Little, Brown’s Booktrack page throughout the summer, with a regular monthly stream of new releases to come.” “Popular novellas by bestselling YA authors-such as Libba Bray, Laini Taylor, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Jennifer E. “The collaboration offers YA readers an innovative new way to experience their favorite stories through immersive, synchronized movie-style soundtracks for popular ebooks. When the company’s press materials say “Booktrack is proven” to increase comprehension, retention, and reading satisfaction, that’s a reference to survey work discussed last summer in which University of Auckland and New York University tests indicate that sound enhancements can increase comprehension by 17 percent and reading retention by 30 percent.įrom the news release issued Thursday (July 21) about the Little, Brown partnership: He would go on to give a presentation on the company’s work at Frankfurt Book Fair’s Business Club in October 2015. Less than a year ago, Cameron, interviewed for The Bookseller’s The FutureBook, spoke about his company’s participation in the Google for Education program with its own Booktrack Classroom effort, which Cameron said reaches into more than 12,000 classrooms internationally. ![]() ![]() Image: Provided by Booktrackīy Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | ‘A Totally Immersive, Enhanced Environment’ The announcement that New Zealander Paul Cameron’s Booktrack is partnering with Hachette’s Little Brown Books for Young Readers on select novellas isn’t without some background in the youth readers space.
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