I don't confess to be an expert in this area but publishers sell rights to their printed and audio versions of their books separately. The perception of most publishers is that there is not much demand in India for audio versions of unabridged titles. This may be statistically true as well. Not many sighted people even know about books being available in audio format.
When I was living in India, I was really struggling to legally buy audio books. None of the book stores carried any decent collection of audio books. They would procure them for you at an inflated price. The only reasonable option I found was audible.com. although Audible has over hundred thousand titles, only a small minority of those are actually available if you use an Indian debit or credit card to pay for the titles. Again, this is because Audible and audio book publishers buy distribution rights for only certain countries. Just my two cents worth... Regards, Kiran -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of payal Sent: 26 September 2013 15:11 To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning the disabled.' Subject: Re: [AI] Market for Audio Books in India. It is a wonderful endeavour to have books in Indian languages. However, the collection of English fiction is small right now. But, if we do get the opportunity to buy our audio books right here in our own country, it would definitely widen the scope for so many otherwise unread authors to be read. What are the possibilities of making international authors available? I know there is a lot that goes into the entire process of making a book available, but can't those publishing houses which do publish international authors make it possible for the books to be produced in audio? This is a question springing out of relative ignorance of how the industry works, and a genuine curiosity to know more. -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Amiyo Biswas Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:20 PM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning thedisabled. Subject: Re: [AI] Market for Audio Books in India. I have also read Bengali audio books from BooksTalk. They donated all those Bengali books to our organisation, Blind Personhs' Association. They are of excellent quality. I don't know why they are not producing anything in Bengali. I mailed Zende on it, still nothing yet in Bengali. With best Regards, Amiyo Biswas Cell: +91-9433464329 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Apoorv Kulkarni" <[email protected]> To: "Accessindia" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 3:28 PM Subject: [AI] Market for Audio Books in India. > Dear all, > > I am currently associated with booksTALK mentioned in the article. While > us VI folks primarily use audio media for consuming content, more and more > non-disabled folks are beginning to enjoy audiobooks. For example, one of > our customer happily reported that where he did not read a single book in > previous 14 months, he finished our audiobooks called Jaya (Mahabharatha) > and The Secret of The Nagas in 2 weeks. Many of my sighted friends also > enjoy listening to audiobooks now. I hope that this trend continues so > that we have more and more audiobooks coming out. > > Regards, > Apoorv > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessind ia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its > veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. 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