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Audible Encourages Authors to Give their Audiobooks Away for Free

The Audible Creation Exchange is a service that allows authors to have…

Audible Wants Authors to Exclusivly Focus on Audiobooks

Audible is the largest company involved in the consumer audiobook sector and…

Audiobooks and e-books Experience Growth in 2014

The Association of American Publishers released their final report on the growth of…

Global Audiobook Trends for 2015

In 2007 a paltry 3,073 audiobook titles were produced and this figure…

3M Cloud Library Now Has Audiobook Support

3M announced back in March that they ironed out an agreement with…

Kobo has No Plans for Audiobooks, Yet..

There has been swirling rumors and speculation today about Kobo getting involved…

GraphicAudio Unveils New Guardians of the Galaxy Audiobook

GraphicAudio is celebrating their ten year anniversary producing their own audiobooks in-house.…

Google Sets Sights on App Store in China

Android users in China (now numbering in the ten of millions) will…

Barnes and Noble Puts a Priority on Audiobooks

Barnes and Noble has formally unveiled their Nook Audiobook app for Android.…

Unlimited Audiobook Subscriptions have Finally Arrived

Major publishers have finally warmed up to the entire notion of unlimited…

Barnes and Noble Launches New Audiobook App

Barnes and Noble has just unveiled their new Nook Audiobook App for…

Skybrite Introduces Subscription Based Audiobook Service

People who love audiobooks are relegated to paying for each one individually…

Audible Attains Thousands of New Comedy Audiobooks

Amazon has just signed a deal to purchase Comedy service Rooftop Media. The…

Top 5 Audiobook Apps for Android

The Audiobook industry has certainly grown up in the digital world. The…

Major Websites Lose Respect with Recent Audiobook Piracy News

Major news websites such as Engadget, Gizmodo and Business Insider have been…

Major Celebrities Lend their Voices for The Legend of Drizzt Audiobook

World War Z, by Max Brooks had an all-star cast loaning out…

Amazon Whispersync for Voice Debuts in the UK

Amazon WhisperSync for Voice is a system that includes immersion reading and…

Humble Bundle Adds Support for eBooks and Audiobooks

Beginning as a site that lets users buy a bundle of video…

Indie Author Tools to Self-Publish Audiobooks

Good e-Reader published an interview with ACX, Amazon’s self-publishing platform for audiobooks,…

Digital Audiobooks the Latest Emerging Trend in Libraries

The American Library Association Annual conference every year is the perfect avenue…

3M Cloud Library to Unveil New Reading App with Built in Audiobook Player

Audiobooks were the major trend of the American Library Association Annual conference…

Billy Crystal Wins Big at the Audie Awards

The Audie awards is an annual gala produced by the Audio Publishers…

Is there a Future in a Standalone Audible App?

Audible is currently the worlds largest audiobook service and has been going…