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 in the United States in 2017 and this is an increase of up … [Read more...] about Global Audiobook Industry Report for the First Half of 2018
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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 remove the audiobook at their decreession or strip the … [Read more...] about People are starting to pirate Audible Audiobooks
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 based on heart rate and body temperature than watching … [Read more...] about Audiobooks are more emotionally engaging than TV or film
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 Association and Edison Research. The two companies found that … [Read more...] about Audiobooks Generated $2.8 Billion in 2017
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 ebook sales. E-Books declined by 4.7% in 2017 and generated … [Read more...] about Audiobooks are offsetting the e-book decline
Audiobook Reader has just received 10,000 installs
One month ago Good e-Reader released a new Android app called Audiobook Reader and it utilizes Amazon Polly TTS to turn any ebook into an audiobook. It is the first app to take advantage of the Amazon voice assistant in this manner and we have just hit 10,000 installs in the past three weeks. This app took over six months to develop and looks really good. It has a flat … [Read more...] about Audiobook Reader has just received 10,000 installs
Apple Podcasts experience 50 billion downloads since 2005
Podcasting is a gateway to audiobooks and the digital publishing industry is well aware. Well known podcasts are getting book deals and doing original audiobook content for Audible and other online retailers. Apple Podcasts has experienced tremendous success and has just hit a major milestone, over 50 billion podcasts have been downloaded or streamed since 2005. There are … [Read more...] about Apple Podcasts experience 50 billion downloads since 2005
Storytel Launches Audiobooks in the United Arab Emirates
Storytel launched in 2005 and is the dominant audiobook subscription service in the Nordic countries. In the past few years they have branched out across Europe in a quest to rival Audible. When I spoke to CEO Jonas Teller a few months ago he said his big goal of 2018 was to "launch in a couple of new markets and to create local language audiobooks in the markets where we are … [Read more...] about Storytel Launches Audiobooks in the United Arab Emirates
UK Audiobook Sales Have Doubled in the Past 5 Years
Audiobook sales have doubled in the United Kingdom in the past five years. In 2017 audiobook sales rose by 12% in volume and 15% in value and digital audio now accounts for 5% of consumer book spending. “Audiobook growth is an encouraging sign that the book consumer in 2017 had a good appetite for content in many formats,” Oliver Beldham, account manager at Nielsen Book … [Read more...] about UK Audiobook Sales Have Doubled in the Past 5 Years
Good e-Reader Launches Audiobook Reader for Android
Good e-Reader would like to introduce our first major Android app for smartphones and tablets. It is called Audio Reader and it turns any ebook into an audiobook. It reads aloud all of your sideloaded content using Amazon Polly, which is what Alexa is built on. We support 28 different languages and 12 different voices for English users. We are the first Android app to employ … [Read more...] about Good e-Reader Launches Audiobook Reader for Android