*CFP* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, SPECIAL ISSUE ON AUDIOBOOKS, JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

The Journal of Electronic Publishing is looking for contributions to a special issue on audiobooks. I’ve included the CFP below or you can find a permanent link here.

The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) invites submissions to a special issue on audiobooks. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Production: audiobooks in publishing workflows, the rise of audiobook-only publishers, rights management.
• Consumption: demographic analysis, usage patterns, divergence between ebook and audiobook consumption.
• The economics of audiobooks: subscription services, infrastructure costs, pricing models.
• Materiality: formats, standard bodies (e.g. W3C/DAISY), media choices (CD/cassette/MP3).
• History: precursors to audiobooks, forgotten/alternate histories and media archaeologies.
• Geography: variation of uptake across nations, licensing/rights, audiobooks in non-Anglophone contexts
• Accessibility and inclusivity: text-to-speech engines as audiobooks, libraries for print-disabled users, representation through narration.
• Genre: adoption of audiobooks by genre, born-audio publications, interactive audiobook publishing.

Since Journal of Electronic Publishing is an online-only publication, while 6,000-8,000 words is recommended, we are open to longer or shorter form submissions if it benefits the piece.

Journal of Electronic Publishing is a gold open access journal with no Article Processing Charge (APC).

Manuscripts should be submit via Journal of Electronic Publishing’s Submittable portal.

Deadline: 1 September 2019