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June is Audiobook Month and Retailers are Gearing up for Big Sales

June is audiobook month and this occurs every year. Over the course…

Podium Audio and Tapas Media form a New Partnership

Podium is an audio-first entertainment studio that finances, develops, produces and distributes…

Audiobook Trend Continues to Grow during the Pandemic

Bookstores and libraries all over the world have closed and this has…

Audible moving to Enhanced Format for audiobooks

In the next few weeks Audible we will be moving all downloads…

Audible says 18.8% of French people listened to an audiobook in 2019

Audible has released a new study in France and it claims that…

Audible is getting serious about podcasts

Amazon owned Audible is getting serious about podcasts. They have been meeting…

Audible has revised the library experience for iOS

Audible is one of the most popular audiobook apps in the world…

Overdrive Libby now works on Sonos speakers

Overdrive has announced that their Libby app is now compatible with Sonos…

Audible is giving away Scotiabank Giller-Prize audiobooks for free

Audible Canada is giving away 10 of Canada’s acclaimed Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning…

ebook sales declined 5.6% in February 2020

Digital book sales in the United States generated $83.3 million dollars in…

Everything you need to know about Canadian reading habits

Booknet Canada released a new leisure time report and it found some…

Alexa users can listen to the first Harry Potter audiobook for free

If you have an Alexa enabled speaker, the first audiobook of the…

US ebook sales were $75 million in January 2020

The sales of ebooks in the United States in January were $75…

Audible offering hundreds of kids audiobooks for free

Audible is offering kids hundreds of free audiobooks to keep them sane…

People who read ebooks, read more

The National Endowment for the Arts monitored American reading habits in 2017…

RBmedia has purchased GraphicAudio

RBMedia has announced that they have purchased GraphicAudio, a leading producer of…

The Audible Captions audiobook program is dead

Last year Audible unveiled a system that would transcribe an audiobook, while…

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman is going to be an Audible Exclusive

Audible is going to turn the Sandman, by Neil Gaiman, into an…

Here are the 2020 Audie Award Winners

The Audie Awards put the spotlight of the best audiobooks of the…

The Tales of Beedle the Bard audiobook arrives on March 31st

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is getting the audiobook treatment next…

Audiobooks and ebooks continue to grow in Canada

Canadians continued to be enamoured with digital audiobooks and ebooks. In 2019,…

Audible Captions now has a resolution

Audible Captions was a new system where audiobooks would play text, so…

London Book Fair unveils new Audiobook Summit

Audiobooks are the fastest growing segment in digital publishing. All of the…