Audiobook News

Audible Escape is a standalone subscription package for Romance audiobooks. The program launched in 2017 under the name Audible Romance, and rebranded two years later. It cost around $6.99 per month and ranked the titles with flavorful names, such as Sweet, Simmering, Sizzling, Hot Damn, and O-O-OMG. Audible has announced that they are discontinuing Escape on November 1st, … [Read more...] about Audible Escape audiobook subscription is being discontinued

Famed science fiction writer Cory Doctorow has been publishing books for over a decade, and his new title is going to be release next month, called Attack Surface, but he won't be selling it on Audible. Instead, Doctorow is selling the recorded version of the book through a Kickstarter campaign, and it will also be available through non-Amazon vendors like Google’s Play store … [Read more...] about Cory Doctorow will not distribute new audiobook to Audible

RBMedia has been in the news lately, primarily due to them selling their library unit to Overdrive and the company is now just selling audiobooks directly to users through their network of retailers, such as Audible and Apple Books. Today, RBMedia has announced they signed a business deal with Mainframe, to produce and distribute four new audiobooks from renowned and … [Read more...] about RBmedia will distribute audiobooks by Brandon Sanderson

Dinlebi is a new audiobook provider in Turkey and content is delivered via their own apps for Android and iOS. They have thousands of audiobooks from over 20 leading publishing houses in Turkey and are offering an attractive business model that would generate them more revenue.Dinlebi Project Coordinator Ethem Şallı explained that the audiobook sector had only recently … [Read more...] about Dinlebi is a new audiobook platform available in Turkey

Audible has just launched a new subscription tier called Audible Plus. It will provide subscribers access to 68,000 hours of content from more than 11,000 original productions, audiobooks, and podcasts. The new offering will be available for $7.95 per month. They are also are changing their Audible Gold program and are now calling it Audible Premium Plus, which costs $14.95 per … [Read more...] about Audible is changing their subscription packages

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline is going to be coming out at the end of November of this year. Wil Wheaton narrated the original audiobook and Cline's 2015 novel Armada. It has just been been confirmed the will also provide the narration of Ready Player Two.The original novel made its debut back in 2011 and was an instant hit and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York … [Read more...] about Wil Wheaton is going to narrate Ready Player Two audiobook

Kids are going to go back to school soon. Some schools are opening their doors to students, while others are going to be doing distance learning. English classes tend to have classic books in their curriculum and Penguin Random House has developed audiobook study guides for titles such as Studying Dracula, Studying The Great Gatsby, Studying Wuthering Heights, and Studying Tess … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House to release Audiobook Study Guides