Publishing Perspectives looks back on 2025 and highlights top stories and events.
Frankfurt White Paper: AI Tools’ Potential Benefits, Challenges in Audio
A consultant’s white paper suggests that AI narration and translation tools could publishers reach two million audiobooks by 2030.
Audiolibre’s Elena Bazán and Álvaro Ortiz in Mexico: Audio First
Still in its first year, Mexico’s Audiolibre creates Spanish-language audio-first productions from books, to make “something richer.’
As Bogotá’s Book Fair Closes: Audiobooks and Localization
The key to audiobooks’ future in Latin America, some say, is ‘localized’ dialects — and more enthusiasm from publishers.
At London Book Fair: Mapping 192 Audio Sales Channels
Subscription leads business models—some of them ‘hybrid subscription— in sales channels that Dosdoce will report on at London Book Fair.
Madrid’s Audio Day PARIX: The GSR’s Spanish-Language Audio Event
The first Audio Day PARIX on February 27 is a production of Spain’s Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez in the audio sector.
Report: Spanish-Language Audio Markets See Fast Growth
In its second ‘Map of the Spanish Audio Industry’ report, Javier Celaya’s Dosdoce cites extraordinary uptake.
Dosdoce: Growing Sales in Spanish-Language Audiobooks
Ahead of this week’s Readmagine, Dosdoce’s Javier Celaya issues a new report on Spanish-language audiobooks and ebooks in 2022.
Madrid’s Readmagine: Skill Sets and ‘Human-Centric Digital Innovation’
First organized in 2006, Spain’s innovation-themed Readmagine industry-facing conference is set for June 7 to 9 in Madrid.
Audiobooks in Spanish: Dosdoce Hands Publishers a ‘Map’
Dosdoce’s Javier Celaya challenges the Spanish-language publishing industry to expand its share of a fast-widening audio ‘ecosystem.’