The blogging community seems to have been quiet about this little bit from WWC, so I’m going to do something unusual and quote an item from the mothersite in case it was missed in the flurry of convention news.
From Vaneta Rogers’ New Worlds Order panel report:
A blind member of the audience said he enjoyed the audiobook version of Infinite Crisis. Would there be more audio books of the Crisis aftermath, joking that, “I’m completely in the dark about it.” There may be 52 in audio. “Usually when we do a novelization, there’s an audio version of it,” Didio said, adding that 52 is due to be a novelization.Paul Levitz then said he remembered reading into a reel-to-reel for a blind friend. “It would be a great thing in this world of internet posted stuff that may or may not be legal to just have homemade read-alouds of your favorite stories for people who cannot read them,” he said.
(Also thought I’d point out that it was the Publisher putting this idea out there.)
August 17th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Graphic Audio is the group that released the “Infinite Crisis” audio book. It’s in two parts, six hours each. The dialogue is read by different actors, along with a regular narrator. Some work better than others. Last I checked, they’re releasing the first part of the 52 novelization in December 2007. It’s the novel versions, so there’s stuff that is added/deleted obviously.
August 17th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Hmm. Would fan-made audio of copyrighted material be something archive.org might host? If there were even a loose agreement for the sake of accessibility, I think something could be worked out.
August 17th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
That’s pretty much what we’ve been doing for years now at pendantaudio.com… it’s good to know Levitz sees the value in it, especially since there’s no money in it whatsoever (he says, hoping to DC legal stays far, far away)