Audio

Authors don’t earn royalties from giveaways, but such codes are often used by authors to support marketing and promotion efforts.

If you’re an indie author who currently participates in KDP Select, here’s what you need to know about the recent changes.

Rampant piracy on the platform, due to AI-generated audio versions, is leading publishers to provide legitimate means of enjoying audiobooks there.

Starting with Audible Original titles, US and UK readers can have an interactive experience with a character outside of a book’s narrative.

In a major announcement this week, Spotify said they’re expanding their audiobooks program to the entire globe by the end of November.

Podium is one of the biggest US audiobook publishers, and it actively buys rights from self-published authors.

Spotify uses voice models from ElevenLabs to produce the AI audiobook at no cost to authors and with no exclusivity requirements.

The service allows audiobooks to be sold and distributed in bulk for events and conferences, large groups of employees, or marketing campaigns.

Choosing your audiobook’s narrator has a bigger impact than you might think. Here are casting tips from a veteran narrator and producer.

The study was performed by Edison Research, a leader in audio market research, and commissioned by Spoken, an AI audiobook production company.

The fastest-growing genres were humor, general fiction, and children’s/YA.

They include AI-narration for self-publishers, personalized AI-generated daily podcasts, human-narrated longform journalism, and more.

The combination of AI narration and YouTube advertising has created a new, profitable form of infringement.

I spoke with three self-publishing novelists who have distinctive business models and different levels of involvement with Amazon and Audible about the new AYCL royalty model.

The service is shifting to a pooling model where audiobook royalties are affected by how much an Audible member consumes in a month.

The venture's AI-narrated audiobooks will be available in the Eleven Reader app in more than a dozen languages.

Audible’s new Standard membership plan includes one audiobook selection and unlimited listening from a curated library.

Curios hopes to offer a streamlined solution for the array of logistical challenges that come with selling audio direct.

They are similar to Spotify’s music and podcast charts, updated every week.

In response to Spotify's Page Match, Audible has rebranded its similar Whispersync for Voice feature (launched in 2012) as “Read & Listen.”

Page Match allows readers to move seamlessly between a printed book and its audiobook on Spotify.

The platform that supports independent booksellers has launched a new subscription plan offering users 12 credits for $169.99 per year.

For the first time, the personalized data story that recaps a user’s listening habits throughout the year includes audiobooks.

Recaps are short audio summaries that help listeners return to an audiobook they’ve already started, without needing to rewind or re-listen.