Audible is running an early Prime Day promotion where you can get three months of access to Audible for $4.95 per month for the first three months. This is an excellent deal because normally the cost of a monthly subscription is $14.95 per month, so this promotion gives you a total savings of $30. Audiobooks these … [Read more...]
Global Audiobook Industry Report for the First Half of 2018
The audiobook industry is experiencing a boom period in the sheer amount of people listening to the format and the entire audio industry is doing solid business. Publishers, narrators, sound engineers, retailers and authors are experiencing a huge financial windfall. Audiobook sales generated $2.8 billion dollars … [Read more...]
People are starting to pirate Audible Audiobooks
Audible has a number of publishing partners and sometimes audiobooks will be removed from a users library. This could be due to a contract dispute or if the publisher decides they want to take their business elsewhere. People who buy a legitimate copy are faced with a conundrum; take the risk that Audible might just … [Read more...]
Audiobooks are more emotionally engaging than TV or film
Working in collaboration with Audible, researchers from University College London conducted a study to find out the physiological impact of auditory vs. visual storytelling. The study, led by Dr. Joseph Devlin, the Head Of Experimental Psychology, revealed that that listening to audiobooks is more emotionally engaging … [Read more...]
Audiobooks Generated $2.8 Billion in 2017
Audiobook sales generated $2.8 billion dollars in the United States in 2017 and this is an increase of up 22.7% over 2016, and with a corresponding 21.5% increase in units. This continues the six-year audiobook trend of double-digit growth year over year. This new sales data stems from the Audiobook Publishers … [Read more...]
Alexa and Google debut Stephen King book recommendation tool
Simon & Schuster has just developed the first the first voice-activated book recommendation tool. If you have a device running Amazon Alexa or Google Voice Assistant will be able to recommend King books tailored to users reading tastes from a selection of 56 titles. The program, S&S said, will ask users a … [Read more...]
Google launching dedicated Podcast App
Google incorporated podcasts into Google Play Music earlier this year and it looks like they are going to spin their podcasting service into a dedicated app. This will hopefully increase adoption, as many people were blissfully unaware that Google even offered their podcast service. According to a snippet of code … [Read more...]
Audiobooks are offsetting the e-book decline
The entire publishing industry gathered in New York for Book Expo America and BookCon, which ended Sunday at the Jacob Javits center in Manhattan. The unilateral consensus is that everyone is really bullish about audiobooks because that have been growing by double digits ever year and are offsetting the decline in … [Read more...]
Does anyone care about audiobook month?
June is audiobook month and in the past hundreds of retailers all over the world ran various promotions and discounts to get more listeners enamoured with the format. Audiobooks are the fastest growing segment in digital publishing and major publishers have been releasing more titles this year, than any other year. … [Read more...]
Here are the 2018 Audiobooks of the year
The 23rd Audie Awards have just concluded and the Audiobook of the Year went to Lincoln in the Bardo,published by Random House Audio. This not only has been one of the most successful audio title of 2017, but the ebook has been a perennial best seller. AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR Lincoln in the Bardo By George … [Read more...]
eBook sales continue to decline in first three months of 2018
Major publishers continue to experience tremendous declines in ebook sales for the past four years. In 2017 they declined by 4.7% and generated $1.103 billion in sales. In the first three months of 2018 ebook fell 3.2% and brought in $270.2 million in revenue. Publisher revenue for eBooks grew 1.5% in March 2018 … [Read more...]
Reese Witherspoon is teaming up with Audible for audiobook originals
Reese Witherspoon is going to be producing original content for Audible audiobooks in the next few months. Audible will also be showcasing a number of titles selected by Reese’s Book Club, which focus on strong but complex female characters. The first audiobook that is showcased on Audible is You think it, I'll say it … [Read more...]