Audio

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.

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.”

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

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

The show is hosted by Susan Orlean and Hrishikesh Hirway and is a spin-off of the popular show Song Exploder.

Spotify’s CEO told investors that the company plans to compete for a piece of the global audiobook market.

Bonnier Books UK is launching Twelve Point Audio, an imprint focused on audio originals and podcasts.

The audiobook and ebook retail platform offers a selection of literary fiction and nonfiction titles from small and independent presses.

The biggest audiobook subscription service outside the US, Storytel has seen its sales grow by 35 percent over last year.

The Book Case will be hosted by ABC News journalist Charlie Gibson and daughter Kate Gibson.

At least once a year a reader discovers Amazon’s long-standing lenient refund/returns policy for ebooks and audiobooks, and spreads the word.

After having a dedicated Nook audiobooks app and audiobook website), Barnes & Noble is selling digital audiobooks through its main Nook app.

It’s now possible to self-produce audiobooks using Findaway Voices Marketplace.

Years ago, RBmedia’s corporate parent acquired a major German audio publisher known as ABOD.

Given that Spotify is moving more into spoken-word content, including podcasts and audiobooks, the following case is worth watching.

One of the most successful audiobook publishers today is likely a company you haven’t heard of: Podium Audio.

According to the UK’s Publishers Association, audiobooks represent about 6 percent of sales volume and 6.4 percent of value.

RBmedia is the corporate parent of multiple publishers of audiobooks

The acquisitions of Findaway and Audiobooks.com signal a possible shakeup in the US audiobook market and more competition with Audible.

Earlier this year, the Digital Public Library of America struck a deal with Amazon Publishing to license its ebooks to libraries.