Your Spotify playlist might be getting a bit stale and not everyone has the same taste in music. Audiobooks are perfect for a road trip, dock lounging sessions, camping trips or starlight bedtime stories with the family. Here is a list of some Canadian audiobooks that are ideal for Canada Day.Biographies & … [Read more...] about Here are the best audiobooks for a Canada Day Road Trip
Audiobook News
DeepZen will allow authors to turn ebooks into audiobooks
DeepZen is a voice synthesizer project that utilizes artificial intelligence algorithms from IBM’s Power A.I. and Watson technologies. DeepZen has developed text-to-speech tools that not only sound human at first listen, but can also pick up on the emotional cues needed for reading text in a compelling manner. In doing … [Read more...] about DeepZen will allow authors to turn ebooks into audiobooks
Marvel is going to release dozens of new audiobooks
Marvel has teamed up with Dreamscape for over two dozen new audiobooks that will be released in September. They will be able to be purchased on all major retail sites such as Amazon, Audible, iBooks, Google, Overdrive and other audiobook platforms. Hoopla will be distributing them to libraries.The initial run of … [Read more...] about Marvel is going to release dozens of new audiobooks
Benefits of Using Audiobooks
Reading a book is a challenging task, even for book lovers. Now a day, reading also does not incorporate into the busy schedule. It is also an undeniable fact that reading is necessary to be educated. Technology has reconciled the conflict with the inception of audiobooks. People love listening to audiobooks. That is … [Read more...] about Benefits of Using Audiobooks
Americans are listening to more audiobooks than ever before
The audiobook industry is digitizing more frontlist and backlist titles and every year there are around 25,000 new audio editions that are available to purchase. Half of all Americans over the age of 12 have listened to an audiobook in the past year, which is up from 44% from last year.Edison Research and Triton … [Read more...] about Americans are listening to more audiobooks than ever before
Audible is turning the Baby Sitters-Club into Audiobooks
When I was going up everyone was reading Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Goosebumps or the Baby-Sitters Club. Audible is capitalizing on nostalgia by converting all 133 novels of the Baby Sitters-Club into 133 different audiobooks. In their hayday, the books sold over 176 million copies.The Baby Sitters-Club follows the … [Read more...] about Audible is turning the Baby Sitters-Club into Audiobooks
Overdrive releases new Audiobook report
Overdrive is the largest digital distributor for audiobooks and ebooks in the public library. The company has just issued a new audiobook report that sheds some light on current trends. It comes as little surprise that Gen Z and Millennials are among the most likely to listen to books on audio, 48% of them regularly … [Read more...] about Overdrive releases new Audiobook report
74% of Audiobook listeners prefer smartphones
Audiobooks are the fastest growing segment of digital publishing and the United States is the market that drives the vast majority of sales. In 2017 $2.5 billion was spent on audiobooks and every year 46,000 titles are produced and there is around 375,000 in circulation. 54% of American audiobook users being under the … [Read more...] about 74% of Audiobook listeners prefer smartphones
Audible Audiobook Credits now expire after one year
Audible is the largest audiobook subscription platform in the world. You can subscribe on a monthly basis and get one credit per month, or you can pay more to get more credits. If you want to get 12 credits all in one go, you can do that too. One of the big problems with Audible, which they did not advertise, is that … [Read more...] about Audible Audiobook Credits now expire after one year
Audiobook sales increased by 13% in the United Kingdom
Audiobooks are the fastest growing segment in digital publishing and customers in the UK have been embracing the format. In 2018 audiobook sales increased by 13% and and up 87% since 2014, according to Nielsen BookScan.Audiobooks now account for 5% of all book purchases and have doubled their share of fiction … [Read more...] about Audiobook sales increased by 13% in the United Kingdom
eBook sales decline by 4.9% in January 2019
Downloaded audio remains the format with the highest percent revenue growth in all of publishing with a 36.1% in January 2019. Meanwhile ebooks continue to decline from prior years, down 4.9% from the same period in 2018.The Association of American Publishers has just proclaimed that in January 2019, publisher … [Read more...] about eBook sales decline by 4.9% in January 2019
