The streaming company says its payout model is competitive, but the Society of Authors has raised doubts about whether authors ultimately benefit Spotify has said that it has paid audiobook publishers “tens of millions” since allowing users 15 hours of audiobook listening in its Premium... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-02-01 16:08:34 UTC ]
There are early signs that Spotify’s addition of audiobooks to its streaming service is helping drive audiobook consumption — already a growing market. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-01-29 17:00:09 UTC ]
Audiobook publisher RBmedia has acquired Berrett-Koehler’s audiobook publishing business, including its backlist, and will publish audiobook editions of new Berrett-Koehler titles under its business audiobook brand, Ascent Audio, beginning this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
The audiobook might be less, well, useful than it is entertainingly honest, unfiltered and even bizarre. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-01-12 10:00:27 UTC ]
With such an incredible range of choices of new audiobooks out in January, you’re sure to find an audiobook perfect for you. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-01-11 11:31:00 UTC ]
The 2024 edition of the German Audiobook Prize issues its shortlists in seven categories, covering books, radio plays, and podcasts. The post The German Audiobook Prize Names Its 2024 Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-01-10 12:31:32 UTC ]
Reading her audiobook memoir, “How to Say Babylon,” the poet gives voice to her Jamaican roots, her early ambition and the Rastafari father who would have quashed it. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-01-05 13:11:49 UTC ]
In “Alice Sadie Celine,” Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s first novel for adults, a lauded feminist becomes entangled with her daughter’s best friend. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-12-22 10:00:21 UTC ]
A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of Black women. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-12-15 10:00:20 UTC ]
Keong Sim reads the audiobook version of the author’s second posthumous collection, “Songs on Endless Repeat.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-12-08 13:52:17 UTC ]
Narrator Dion Graham joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to discuss his narration of King: A Life, written by Jonathan Eig, and one of AudioFile’s 2023 Best Biography & Memoir Audiobooks. Listen to hear Graham discussing the research and preparations that went into this narration, and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-04 09:08:51 UTC ]
You can read countless ebooks, listen to audiobooks, and browse comics with one of these WIRED-tested digital reading subscriptions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2023-12-02 14:00:00 UTC ]
Each month, for your literary listening pleasure, our friends at AudioFile Magazine bring us the cream of the audiobook crop. Now, at 2023 draws to a close, they’ve rounded up the very best audiobooks of the year. Happy listening and happy holidays! * FICTION AudioFile’s 2023 Best Fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-01 14:03:20 UTC ]
Perdita Weeks reads the audiobook version of Megan Barnard’s debut novel, reimagining the Israeli queen as a source of mythic, feminist anger. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-12-01 10:00:14 UTC ]
The bimonthly magazine, which covers and reviews audiobooks, has named its Best Audiobooks of 2023. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bookwire's 'WAY' audiobook services are to be available to French-language publishers early in 2024. The post Germany: Bookwire’s Audiobook Service Goes to Brazilian, English, Spanish Markets appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-11-29 04:44:54 UTC ]
The Audio Publishers Association's Michele Cobb sees a steady gain by audiobooks in the United States' publishing marketplace. The post APA: Audiobooks’ US Share Up 5 Percent, 2017 to 2022 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-11-22 19:35:05 UTC ]
The Libro.fm audiobook sale has thousands of audiobooks available at a great discount. Get everything from Fourth Wing to Yellowface. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-11-22 17:30:38 UTC ]
Project Gutenberg's AI audiobook project is yet another instance of AI encroaching on the book industry. But how do the audiobooks sound? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-11-22 11:36:00 UTC ]
“Going Infinite” may have missed the big takeaway, but it offers at least one undeniable pleasure: deep access. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-17 14:25:02 UTC ]