Panorama Project in Your Ears | Podcast Roundup

Panorama Project lead Guy LeCharles Gonzalez was a guest on two industry podcasts this month—Inside Independent Publishing (with IPBA) and Circulating Ideas—discussing our recent work and upcoming initiatives, including the Immersive Media & Reading 2020 research.

Hosted by Peter Goodman, "Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)" aims to nurture smarter publishers by giving access to powerful ideas, strategies, and tools for success. The podcast is sponsored and supported by the Independent Book Publishers Association—the largest book publishing association in the US serving independent publishers and author publishers, and a key partner in Immersive Media & Reading 2020.

Hosted by Steve Thomas, “Circulating Ideas” is the librarian interview podcast facilitating conversations with the innovative people and ideas inspiring libraries to grow and thrive in the 21st century.

Both podcasts are free to listen to online, or on your preferred podcast platform.

Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)

We all know that libraries are important to developing readers and providing books and ebooks to the communities they serve. But how exactly does this impact the book industry and stimulate (or depress) consumer sales? Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, project lead for the Panorama Project, discusses the goals of the project’s research as well its investigation into how readers’ engagement with books is changing as a result of streaming media and gaming.

Circulating Ideas

Steve chats with Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, project lead for the Panorama Project, about what the project is, how he came to it, what libraries and publishers can learn about each other, and why he is optimistic about the future of reading.

NOTE: If you missed it earlier this summer, be sure to listen to Beyond the Book’s episode, “How to be an Anti-Racist Reader (And Publisher),“ which covers our custom Panorama Picks with the Washington Post, spotlighting a broad range of titles of interest to readers that were similar to the most frequently recommended titles on anti-racist reading lists.