RBmedia has just launched its new business audio brand, Ascent Audio. The brand offers the world’s largest business audiobook catalog encompassing all of the major categories in business education and featuring titles by bestselling business authors like Jon Gordon, Grant Cardone, Michael Watkins, Jeb Blount, Brian Tracy, W. Chan Kim, and Renée Mauborgne.The new Ascent … [Read more...] about RBmedia launches Ascent Audio for business focused audiobooks
Audiobook News
The Blinkist app can let you summarize eBook in just minutes
There might be no dearth of apps that lets you go through eBooks or audiobooks. However, here is one - the Blinkist app for Android and iOS . The way the app functions is it provides users with a short summary of an eBook. Listening to the summary will let the users have an idea of what the eBook is all about without having to go through the entire eBook.Each of the short … [Read more...] about The Blinkist app can let you summarize eBook in just minutes
Audible Premium Plus Launches in the United Kingdom
Audible revised their membership program last year in the United States and introduced new tiers of pricing. The Audible Premium Plus system is now available in the United Kingdom. The £7.99 a month program provides 1 audiobook credit, the plus catalog which has over 7500 titles and ad-free podcasts.The Plus catalog gives Audible members more of what they love and more to … [Read more...] about Audible Premium Plus Launches in the United Kingdom
Storytel now offering Tamil language audiobooks in India
Storytel has announced it will now be offering Tamil language audiobooks in India, which is just one of the several other Indian languages that the audiobook and e-book platform has been supporting in the country. As of now, there are going to be more than a thousand audiobooks available in the Tamil language. It has scores of Tamil eBooks to offer though, which includes those … [Read more...] about Storytel now offering Tamil language audiobooks in India
Greece lowers VAT on e-books and audiobooks to 6%
The government in Greece has decided to lower the value-added tax or VAT on ebooks and audiobooks from a rather high 24 percent to 6 percent in the country. This has been done as per a recommendation by the Ministry of Culture. The move is being implemented as per an amendment to the VAT code which will take effect from the date of publication in the Government Gazette on July … [Read more...] about Greece lowers VAT on e-books and audiobooks to 6%
Digital Book Sales Plummet 23.4% in May 2021
April and May were not good months for the ebook industry. The format fell 1.2% in April and generated $90.8 million in revenue, in May the decline was more pronounced, plummeting 23.4% for the month as compared to May of 2020 for a total of $86.3 million. The declines are directly attributed to more bookstores opening up in the US and shoppers buying hardcover and paperback … [Read more...] about Digital Book Sales Plummet 23.4% in May 2021
Here is a new statistical audiobook report on listening habits
The Book Industry Study Group has just released a new report on how audiobook adoption is really starting to take off in the United States. The data was collected from a substantial general survey population of 4314 respondents, in late 2020. The report found that 43.6% of the general survey population engage with audiobooks and 49.6% of those who engage with audiobooks buy the … [Read more...] about Here is a new statistical audiobook report on listening habits
New AI tool Katarite to automate audiobook creation
Audiobooks are all the rage these days and there are a greater number of audiobooks produced now than ever before. However, unlike print or e-books, audiobooks require a human voice actor to actually read out the stories. It is this that might change soon thanks to a new tool named Katarite that has been jointly developed by Parksha and Otobank.Parksha contributed to the … [Read more...] about New AI tool Katarite to automate audiobook creation
Children are listening to more audiobooks in 2021
The Literacy Trust in the United Kingdom and Audible have just issued a new report on how young people are listening to audiobooks. The survey of 8 to 18-year-olds showed almost half (48.7%) of children and young people listened to some form of audio in the last year. 1 in 4 (23.3%) listen to just podcasts, in addition 1 in 4 listened to audiobooks or audiobooks with podcasts. … [Read more...] about Children are listening to more audiobooks in 2021
Storytel will stream three new Sherlock Holmes audiobook in 2022
Sherlock Holmes is all set to make a comeback, that too in the form of audiobooks. All of this is the result of a new partnership forged between the Swedish audiobook platform, Storytel, and Conan Doyle Estate with the actual stories to be written by novelist Anthony Horowitz.Horowitz also isn't a stranger to the shadowy world of crime and punishment, having such literary … [Read more...] about Storytel will stream three new Sherlock Holmes audiobook in 2022
US ebook sales dipped slightly in April 2021
Digital book sales in the United States fell slightly by 1.2% in April 2021 and generated $90.8 million. This is the first time this year that the format did not increase, this is primarily due to many bookstores reopening. Digital audiobooks was up 17.5% for April, coming in at $63.1 million in revenue. Physical Audio was up 32.2% coming in at $2.1 million.What is very … [Read more...] about US ebook sales dipped slightly in April 2021
