We've had a couple of questions here about the audiobook format. In particular, there was a question about writing for audiobooks in 2010, and now we have a question about producing audiobooks, currently on hold.
Some discussion in the latter question's comments lead me to wonder: What topics relating to audiobooks would be considered on-topic here? Obviously anything involving writing would be appropriate for Writers, but are there any other related topics that would be on-topic here?
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Producing audiobooks is about publishing. I vote for on-topic.
This site is about writing, and not about recording or voice technique. Just as we've ruled out other sorts of activities since they're not about the actual writing - book design, for example - I think that the actual production of an audiobook is off-topic here.
Audiobooks are part of the publishing process, but the production of audiobooks is a whole 'nother thing.
I'd have a difficult time drawing the line decisively, but I'd say the cut-off should be this: Is the question clearly relevant to the perspective of an author, or a publisher, or an editor.
So, for example, "How much say does the author get in audiobook production?" is fine, "How do I market an audiobook alongside the original?" is fine, but "What skills do I need to narrate an audiobook?" would be off-topic.
So long as the subject is still about the craft of writing itself, I don't see why not. We already have people with questions about screenplays, which to me is quite a bit further away from the paradigm of narrative, "read it in your head" style writing that appears to be the paradigm.
I'm not sure that the production of audiobooks is actually on topic though. Directing a movie isn't on topic, so why would the process of producing an audiobook be?
