Audio

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.

Earlier this year, Spotify put out a call for authors to submit their short-form stories for consideration as a Spotify exclusive audiobook.

Audible says they’re curating their Plus catalog in a way that maintains the value of the credit system, but authors fear that’s not the case.

Spotify has launched a “Big on BookTok” landing page offering audiobook playlists based on viral book recommendations on TikTok.

Now authors can sell their AI-generated audiobooks directly through ElevenReader and earn a 60 percent royalty rate.

The Portland, Oregon-based company partners with Hume AI and ElevenLabs to offer authors AI-generated voices or human voice clones.

As of August 1, Findaway has been carved off from Spotify and is independent once again, this time under the name INaudio.

A federal judge ruled that Amazon must face a lawsuit that accuses them of monopolizing the retail market for audiobooks.

Audiobook sales revenue increased 13 percent in 2024 versus the prior year, according to the Audio Publishers Association Sales Survey.

Audible will offer AI production technology to select publishers, first for narration and later for translated narration.

They’re looking for adult romance, mystery/thriller, and sci-fi/fantasy stories of 10,000 to 20,000 words, written specifically for audio.

The Spoken World podcast launched last week and will provide in-depth coverage of the global audiobook market.

They’ve just launched ElevenReader Publishing, where authors can create and sell AI-narrated audiobooks for free through their app.

Simon Maverick will mostly work with self-published authors to produce original audiobooks and is planning 50 titles in its first year.

Learn about the UK’s bestselling books every month from the folks who work at Nielsen BookScan.

Oprah will announce her new monthly book selections on a new companion podcast sponsored by Starbucks.

Spotify for Authors is a new feature from Spotify to help both authors and publishers better understand their audience on Spotify.