The Digital Publishing Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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The Digital Publishing Podcast

Simon Mellins & Simon Holt

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Technology

Frequency: 1 episode/33d. Total Eps: 13

A production-focused podcast about digital publishing and the extraordinary people who make it happen.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
17/05/2025
#65

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https://danmellins.com/
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https://apln.ca/accessibility-metadata-best-practices-for-ebooks/
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https://pixabay.com/users/penguinmusic-24940186/
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Episode 12: The Art of the Probable, with George Walkley

Season 1 · Episode 12

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 • Duration 01:06:49

AI is upending almost all walks of life and industry right now. In this episode we are extremely lucky to get to talk to AI expert and publishing veteran George Walkley. We talk about copyright, creativity, accessibility and how AI impacts all of this for the publishing industry, as well as broader society.

CREDITS:

Produced by Simon Mellins
Presented by Simon Mellins and Simon Holt
Music: Better Days by penguinmusic at Pixabay

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Episode 11: Laura Brady, Accessibility Busybody

Season 1 · Episode 11

Monday, March 10, 2025 • Duration 48:11

Laura Brady has been advocating for, training in and talking about accessibility in publishing for longer than almost anyone, and we are deeply privileged to have her join us for this fascinating talk on all things accessible publishing. We learn about her journey through various parts of publishing to where she is today, and get her take on recent developments.

Laura mentioned the following metadata report: https://apln.ca/accessibility-metadata-best-practices-for-ebooks/

CREDITS:

Produced and Presented by Simon Mellins
Transcript provided by Lumina Datamatics
Music: Better Days by penguinmusic at Pixabay

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Episode 2: Ken Jones, Founder of Circular Software

Season 1 · Episode 2

Friday, May 3, 2024 • Duration 56:40

For our second episode I wanted to introduce Ken Jones, who tells his remarkable story of growing up working in the family printing press, becoming an early digital pioneer in 'Big Publishing', and then breaking out on his own to found a successful software company building tools for the industry.

We talk through his unique journey, and reflect on how a task-oriented, human-centric approach led him to produce some really deeply useful tools for the ‘real world’ problems faced by publishers, in a world of idealised standards and walled gardens.

CREDITS:

Produced and Presented by Simon Mellins
Production support from Dan Mellins-Cohen
Transcript provided by Lumina Datamatics
Music: Better Days by penguinmusic at Pixabay

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Episode 1: The DAISY Consortium with Richard Orme, CEO

Season 1 · Episode 1

Tuesday, April 23, 2024 • Duration 55:41

For our first episode I was thrilled to welcome Richard Orme, CEO of the DAISY Consortium, the global organisation that has been driving accessible publishing technology change since 1996. Richard is an amazing individual with a long and rich history in accessible software and standards development, and our conversation covered his fascinating story, as well as the many ways that accessibility links the worlds of technology and the humans using it.

CREDITS:

Written and Produced by Simon Mellins, with production support from Dan Mellins-Cohen (https://danmellins.com/) and the music is Better Days by penguinmusic at Pixabay.

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TRAILER: The Digital Publishing Podcast

Season 1

Thursday, April 11, 2024 • Duration 03:34

In this brief preview I go over how this podcast came to be, and what to expect in the full episodes coming soon.

Episode 10: The Work Will Continue - Legal Special with Lainey Feingold and Eve Hill

Season 1 · Episode 10

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 • Duration 01:03:09

The Digital Publishing Podcast returns! Times have certainly changed since the last episode, so we have 2 expert lawyers in the field of accessible publishing, Lainey Feingold and Eve Hill, joining me and my new co-host Simon Holt to discuss where we’re at, what’s changed and what hasn’t.

This was an unusual episode to record, as it wades into politics in a way this podcast doesn't normally. But in this critical historical moment, where disability rights in the US are under threat in such a blunt and ill-thought-out way, there is no room for 'both sides'. That said, we stay practical and optimistic, with 2 of the best experts in the business helping to understand the reality of the current situation.

CREDITS:

Produced by Simon Mellins

Presented by Simon Mellins and Simon Holt

Music: Better Days by penguinmusic at Pixabay

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Episode 9: Barrier Busters and AI Washing Machines - with Simon Holt, Senior Product Manager for Content Accessibility at Elsevier

Season 1 · Episode 9

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 • Duration 01:08:49

2 Simons for the price of one! This episode of the Digital Publishing Podcast features my fantastic and very broad conversation with Simon Holt from Elsevier, where he shares his powerful perspective as someone with real lived experience of disability, who has worked in and around publishing and accessibility for many years.

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Produced and Presented by Simon Mellins
Transcript provided by Lumina Datamatics
Music: Better Days by penguinmusic at Pixabay

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Episode 8: The Heartstrings and the Geek Button - with Michael Johnson, VP of Content at Benetech

Season 1 · Episode 8

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 • Duration 57:47

Michael Johnson is an EPUB and accessibility legend - but this is not how his story started. Listen to this episode to hear his journey, and all about the incredible work being done at Benetech to empower readers all over the world, including the revolutionary BookShare service.

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Produced and Presented by Simon Mellins
Transcript provided by Lumina Datamatics
Music: Better Days by penguinmusic at Pixabay

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Episode 7: Missionary Zeal - with Kate Whittaker, Digital Learning Consultant

Season 1 · Episode 7

Saturday, August 3, 2024 • Duration 01:24:41

This time I'm joined from sunny Cape Town by digital learning consultant and accessibility veteran Kate Whittaker. In this philosophical as well as practical conversation we talk information literacy, apartheid, digital change, libraries, education and a whole lot more.

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Episode 6: The Focus Locus Hocus Pocus - with Huw Alexander, Managing Director at textBOX

Season 1 · Episode 6

Friday, July 19, 2024 • Duration 01:12:38

The best thing about running this show is being able to bring my favourite people on to tell their stories. Huw Alexander is not just one of the nicest people in the publishing accessibility space, but also a true inspiration to me, having branched out from a large publisher to found his own company, in the highly-timely sector of image description. We learn about his fantastic journey, and dive deep into the fascinating and challenging world of image descriptions for diverse publishing. And yes, we talk about AI…

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