Audio

Lifestyle publication N Magazine, focused on Nantucket Island, has launched a new podcast: Books, Beach & Beyond.

Editors look for stories most compellingly told on audio; quicker time to market can play a role, too.

As of May 1, Findaway Voices has eliminated its 20 percent distribution fee for audiobooks purchased on Spotify; authors will

Kobo Plus is so far available in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, the UK, and the US.

Audible has been testing ads in select audiobooks, podcasts, and original content specifically for non-members.

Spotify users in Canada can now purchase audiobooks through the service.

Two authors seemingly on similar publishing trajectories experienced very different outcomes, and started a podcast to examine why.

A machine learning clause in the Apple terms of service with Findaway Voices has been giving authors and narrators cause for concern.

According to the AAP, which consists of traditional publishers in various sectors, consumer sales dropped 6.2 percent in 2022 against 2021.

ACX, a service used by self-publishing authors to distribute and sell audiobooks on Audible, recently emailed creators about price changes.

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OverDrive, the leading distributor of digital books to libraries, recently announced that digital lending increased 10 percent over 2021.

Apple has launched AI-powered book narration to help authors and small publishers convert their English-language titles into audiobooks.

The leading digital book subscription service in Europe, Storytel, has launched a new subscription level with a listening cap.

Sanderson ran the most successful Kickstarter in history last year for four “secret” novels that will be self-published.

The audio streaming service wants to target casual listeners who have never listened to an audiobook by making the format easier and more convenient to try

Kobo is expanding their Kobo Plus subscription service in Canada to include an option for unlimited use of over 100,000 audiobooks.

Hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri, If Books Could Kill focuses on “airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.”

Hamish McKenzie, one of the founders of Substack, has launched a podcast, Active Voice, “about how great writers reckon with the internet.”

On the heels of a major change to its ebook returns policy, Amazon has modified its policy for audiobook returns in Audible.

Book wholesaler and distributor Ingram has invested in the NFT ebook company Book.io.

For years now, Spotify has been on a long and clear march toward increasing profitability by making more non-music content available.

The audiobook industry will be determining which books merit human narration and those that can do well with synthetic voices.

We almost missed this show, which launched in July: an all-new podcast about the “bad behavior within the secretive world of book publishing.”

Podcast network Lemonada Media and Penguin Random House have partnered to launch the Lemonada Book Club podcast.