Background and strategic fit
Audiobooks are the fastest-growing segment of the digital publishing industry. Used by every age demographic, they are key component of the library’s digital reading strategy. To provide support for this important format, and to make the customer experience on par with market leaders like Overdrive, Axis 360, and cloudLibrary, we are adding audiobooks to SimplyE.
https://goodereader.com/blog/audiobooks/global-audiobook-trends-and-statistics-for-2018
SimplyE provides a simplified and elegant universal e-content discovery, lend and reading experience for library patrons who seek to read ebooks from the lirbary. As such the SimplyE app will need to support audiobook format ebooks as the format grows in adoption and popularity with library patrons. The project will include the integration of Audiobook player functionality and audiobook catalog materials discovery, lend and play functions of SimplyE. That work has a design and engineering component. The specific work will include integration of audiobook materials into the SimplyE discovery and borrowing UX. This requires a new audiobook player UI. There also will be a server integration component involving the Circulation Manager (CM). That work will specifically require minor modifications to the CM Admin Interface as well as the catalog’s and applications service gateway (e.g. interface to provider APIs for RB Digital, Bibliotheca and Baker & Taylor, and Findaway.)
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