Audio

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Best-streaming audiobooks, by contrast, are shorter, more straightforwardly written, and appear to highlight plot and dialogue.

Audio-first publisher Podium has announced a new partnership initiative for its voice talent.

The biggest US book wholesaler and distributor, Ingram, has established a marketing partnership with the UK’s DeepZen, which provides publishers with AI-generated text-to-speech audiobooks.

Founded by wealthy book influencer and podcaster Zibby Owens, Zibby Books will publish one book per month,

Audiobook retailer Libro.fm now works with businesses to offer curated collections of digital audiobooks to employees

The Rights Factory, a literary agency, has just launched a new agency-wide podcast, Agent Provocateur, “to intrigue, entertain, and yes, provoke you.”

We need a multi-prong attack to not only recover our stolen funds but also stop the continuation of Audible’s monopolistic abuse of authors, narrators, and readers.”

Agents are urging publishers to offer a greater share of audiobook royalties beyond the standard 25 percent net (the same as ebooks).

As exponential growth in audio inevitably slows, publishers will have to vie for market share with other content providers and services