- Share of online Thanksgiving-weekend shopping captured by Amazon: 30.9%
- Difference in Amazon’s share from 2015: -0.2%
- Estimated size of UK audiobook market in 2015: 10.9 million units
- Most popular audiobook genre in UK in last 12 months: crime, thriller, adventure
- Top audiobook genre read by UK men ages 18–34: humor
- Top audiobook genre read by UK men ages 35–54: SFF/horror
- Top audiobook genre read by UK men ages 55–84: crime/thriller
- Top audiobook genre read by UK women ages 18–34: popular fiction
- Top audiobook genre read by UK women ages 35–54: crime/thriller
- Top audiobook genre read by UK women ages 55–84: crime/thriller
Sources: Amazon Captured 31 Percent of Online Spending over Cyber Weekend; Back to the FutureBook: Audio Gets Its Own Channel at the Conference
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
