Registration and Breakfast with Exhibitors

DRM: To Be or Not To Be 

Is DRM crucial protection or a stranglehold on growth, a debate.
Panelists include Ryland Hawkins from the Coalition for Copyright Protection and Ronald Wheeler, Senior Vice President, Content Protection, Fox Group. This panel will be moderated by Ana Maria Allessi, Vice President and Publisher, HarperMedia.

Break

Concurrent sessions, choose from the following:

Once More with Feeling: How to get the best from your talent

Join Chip Hurd as she provides insights and tips on effectively coaching talent to bring thier best performances to life. Chip is an American actress, director, consultant and dialogue coach. She directed the award-winning Bible Experience audiobook. Chip made her film debut in Claudine (1974), played the birth mother of Janet Jackson in the '70s hit, Good Times and has had numerous supporting roles and guest appearances on television. She has also directed episodes of the popular UPN sitcoms, One on One, All of Us, Girlfriends and The Parkers. She has been a consultant for The Parkers, Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and Living Single. Chip is also the mother of actresses Kim and Alexis Fields and has been married to technical director Erv Hurd since 1994. Guest panelists include Phil Morris, Pauletta Washington, and Morgan Gherhardt.

Going Green Isn’t Black & White: Audiobook solutions that are environmentally low-impact and high quality

Consumers are buzzing about reducing their carbon footprints. Retailers are grading products on their environmental-friendliness. Publishers are being bombarded with sales-pitches from "green-certification" companies. How do you cut through the "green-tape?" Join this session and learn about practical audiobook solutions that are environmentally low-impact and high quality.

Session speaker: Robin Raj, Partner/Creative Director at Citizen Group.
As both a creative director and copywriter, Robin has contributed to some of the world’s most best-known brands. His work has earned dozens of awards in both traditional and digital media including Clios and Cannes Lions. While at Chiat/Day in the 1980's, he created the NYNEX Yellow Pages "Human Cartoons" campaign, voted one of Adweek’s 25 Greatest Ad Campaigns. Today Robin is putting his energies towards helping shape social change by focusing on “citizen brands.” 2007 saw the launch of Citizen, a spin-off of Collaborate, the San Francisco agency he co-founded in 1999, with clients such as Amnesty International, Pabst Brewing Company, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and Wal-Mart (sustainability program).

Break

Membership Meeting

All APA members are welcome to attend this meeting and hear about the APA’s accomplishments over the last year. Preliminary data from the 2007 Sales Survey and 2008 Consumer Survey will be shared. Members will have the opportunity to ask questions of board and committee chairs.

Non-members may take this opportunity to network with exhibitors.

Lunch

Boost Your Sales!

Listeners are everywhere but how do you reach them? Join this session and learn how to use the latest technology to reach new listeners by harnessing the power of digital media, social networking and new channels of sale. Panelists include Dave Hanley, V.P Marketing for Shelfari, the most popular social network for book readers and David Weiner, emerging media specialist with PR Newswire.  David Weiner joined PR Newswire in 2002 as an editor and has extensive experience dealing with all aspects of wire, photo, and multimedia distribution. Over the past four years, David has been counseling many of the largest public relations and investor relations agencies on best practices, especially related to social media. Dave Hanley has been working in web media for years, most recently as director of product management at RealNetworks where he oversaw Rhapsody.com and Rhapsody's web services program.

Break

Concurrent sessions, choose from the following:

Best Practices for Metadata

High quality metadata is crucial for retailers and can be a significant factor in the convenience and listening ease for the consumer. Listen in as panelists Andrew DaPuzzo, Arvato Digital Services, and Andrew Weinstein, Ingram Digital Services, discuss best practices in providing data to different vendors, dividing up a book, working with GraceNotes and more.

It’s 2008: Do you know what your kids are listening to?

Join panelists Pam Spencer Holley, YALSA Past President and Chair of the 2009 Odyssey Audiobook Award, and Anna Swenson, Category Manager for Scholastic Book Fairs, Jennifer Bassuk, Senior Director Content Acquisition at Audible, and Megan Dietsche Goel, Children’s Buyer at BookPeople, as they explores current trends in children’s audiobooks. This panel will be moderated by Tim Diltow, Vice President, Brilliance Audio.

Premiere of  The Delivery

A short film by Gabrielle de Cuir
Introduction by Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
The Delivery is a journey into the fantastical world of auditory imagination featuring Scott Brick, Emily Janice Card, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, John Rubinstein, Michael York, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Stephanie Zimbalist and more!

Cocktail Reception

Special Pre-APAC Narrators Master Class
Note: This session is now full and available by wait-list only. If you are interested in participating, please select the option and include the fee in your total. You will not be charged the additional $75 unless you are contacted and informed that space is available. We do anticipate more space in this session becoming available mid-May. 

Instructors: Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir

Open to pre-registered participants for an additional $75, this session will focus on matching literary genres and styles to participants’ skills and sensibilities. This is also a pre-screening for those APAC participants desiring to present at the APAC Narrators, Workshop. Selections will be recorded and made available to participants at no extra charge. Space is limited and location details will be forwarded to all registered attendees.

Registration and Breakfast with Exhibitors

Shaping a Career in Audiobook Narration: The changing landscape of the industry and new opportunities for narrators

Panelists include award-winning narrator Scott Brick, award-winning narrator and director Cassandra Campbell, award-winning narrator and director, Grover Gardner, Blackstone Audio, celebrity guest Arte Johnson, celebrity guest John Rubinstein and others.

Moderated by Grammy and multiple Audie Award winning narrator, director and producer Stefan Rudnicki.

Break

Narration Demonstration

Guest celebrity narrators tackle a multi-reader text to explore issues of style and nuance.

Break

Membership Meeting

All APA members are welcome to attend this meeting and hear about the APA’s accomplishments over the last year. Preliminary data from the 2007 Sales Survey and 2008 Consumer Survey will be shared. Members will have the opportunity to ask questions of board and committee chairs.

Non-members may take this opportunity to network with our exhibitors.

Lunch

Narrators Workshop

Brief audiobook presentations in all genres, analyzed and evaluated by guest celebrities and panelists.

Break

Narrators Workshop, Part 2

More presentations in all genres, analyzed and evaluated by guest celebrities and panelists.

Premiere of  The Delivery

A short film by Gabrielle de Cuir
Introduction by Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
The Delivery is a journey into the fantastical world of auditory imagination featuring Scott Brick, Emily Janice Card, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, John Rubinstein, Michael York, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Stephanie Zimbalist and more!

Cocktail Reception

Early Bird (by 4/18) - $275

(after 4/18) - $325

Additional Attendee from Same Company (by 4/18) - $250

Additional Attendee from
Same Company (after 4/18)- $300

Early Bird (by 4/18) - $375

(After 4/18) - $425

Additional Attendee from Same Company (by 4/18) - $350

Additional Attendee from
Same Company (After 4/18) - $400