Nine narrators and nine post-production editors helped create the 23-hour audiobook less than a week after the committee released its findings
Macmillan Audio was first. Miraculously, it released a 23-hour version of the report Dec. 28, when most of the publishing industry was still on vacation. Guy Oldfield, the head of production at Macmillan Audio, tells me: “If it hadn’t been for the Christmas weekend, I would have had it available on the 26th.”How did Oldfield and his team manage that feat of near-instant production? After all, before the Final Report of the Jan.
Meanwhile, instead of using one postproduction editor, Macmillan used nine, working simultaneously. They received the incoming audio files, checked for errors and quality control, and finalized each part. By 10:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve — a mere 36 hours after the report was released — the recording was all done.But no single person had yet listened to the entire 23 hours. There simply wasn’t time. “It was a collective effort,” Oldfield says. “I just had to trust the process.
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