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Inclusivity

Accessible by Design: The Role of Personalised Audio in Inclusive Publishing

By MJ on June 17, 2025 | defining books, inclusivity, personalised audiobooks

Inclusive publishing is important. We’ve all encountered situations where we’ve run into a barrier when trying to use a service, a tool, a gadget, or a system. These can be…

Research

Beyond Access: How Publishing Can Lead in a Digital World

By MJ on June 2, 2025 | connection, digital divide, personalised audiobooks, Reading, research

The digital divide is a term that you may be familiar with if you spend your days looking into literacy, why kids are reading less, or researching the place where…

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Digital rituals and the role of personalised audiobooks

By MJ on May 16, 2025 | connection, personalised audiobooks, your best self

Humans are creatures of habit. Whether individually, collectively or both, we tend to develop regular patterns that shape how our days pass. These can often be the macro-level blocks of…

Connection

Whose Voices Are Remembered? Archiving the Voices of Those We Love

By MJ on April 30, 2025 | connection, personalised audiobooks, storytelling

Before Dudley Editions existed as an app that you can easily download and use from your smartphone, it was an idea that came from a feeling of loss. I missed…

News

The Power of Affirmations: Building Well-Being Through Personalised Audiobooks

By MJ on December 16, 2024 | affirmations, your best self

Life can feel overwhelming some days; most days. However well things are going, there are wobbles along our routes and we sometimes need help in deciding whether an upcoming obstacle…

News

Why publishers should embrace AI-driven audio

By MJ on November 12, 2024

Digital transformation can sound like an intimidating term. While digital solutions enable almost every aspect of our society to run more smoothly, the process of changing from embedded approaches to…

News

Listen and Learn: Personalised Audiobooks can be a Gateway to Literacy

By MJ on October 30, 2024 | literacy

Audiobooks have a range of positive associations, whether from being a central part of our relaxation time, a delightful way to unlock and enhance treasured stories, a way to expand…

News

What is a personalised audiobook?

By MJ on October 14, 2024 | copyright, personalised audiobooks

Personalised audiobooks are books that use some element of tailoring to the indvidual user. Specifically, we develop audiobooks that are created in the individual’s unique voice making the audibook deeply personal.…

News

The value of hearing things read out loud

By MJ on October 14, 2024

Our earliest memories of reading likely take us back to a classroom. There a patient teacher sits nearby. We struggle to say words out loud derived from symbols that still…

News

Personalised Audiobooks – an entirely new publishing copyright

By MJ on October 14, 2024

The UK audiobook market accounts for some £214m in annual spending, with 278m audiobooks sold in the UK in 2023 alone (Nielsen, 2024). Developments across the decades have been driven…