Golden Voice narrator Julia Whelan joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to tell listeners about narrating Kristin Hannah’s memorable historical fiction audiobook, The Women, one of our picks for Best Fiction of 2024. It’s an emotional story about Vietnam War combat nurses, and Julia details how she... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-12-05 09:05:46 UTC ]
The bimonthly magazine, which covers and reviews audiobooks, has named its best audiobooks of the year across nine categories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
Spotify Wrapped dropped on December 4, giving subscribers an annual recap of their year in popular culture and providing new tools for tracking listening tastes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
Spotify for Authors, an analytics and promotion platform for the company's audiobook division, will offer demographic data about listeners, author profile pages, and redemption codes for reviewers, among other features. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Opens an Audiobook Distribution Agreement With Spotify The post Bloomsbury Opens an Audiobook Distribution Agreement With Spotify appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-11-22 22:27:19 UTC ]
Amazon moves to shore up Audible against Spotify's audiobook success, plus a power ranking of the books of 1994, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-20 16:00:00 UTC ]
Our friends at AudioFile magazine recommend the best fall audiobooks, from Sally Rooney’s buzzy new Intermezzo to a delicious memoir from actor Stanley Tucci, plus Earphones Award–winning audiobooks from Rumaan Alam, Liane Moriarty, Rachel Kushner, and more. This is listening to settle in with.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2024-10-29 12:00:00 UTC ]
The new cloud-based software platform, founded by Spanish-language audiobook industry veteran Juliana Rueda Gutierrez, offers an audiobook production option that integrates management, recording, and quality control into a single interface. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
The comedian Jenny Slate reads the audiobook version of “Lifeform,” her new memoir about parenting. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-10-23 09:02:21 UTC ]
Production has ramped up significantly over the past year, according to Dosdoce founder Javier Celaya, who will keynote the FIL’s 2024 audiobooks forum. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
Spotify has expanded its audiobook service to four new non-English speaking markets: France, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The localized catalog includes 15,000 titles in French and 15,000 in Dutch and Flemish. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Plus: Meta’s AI scrapes the UK, Google digitizes your passport, Chrome syncs your tabs everywhere, and (have you heard?) Apple announces some new iPhones. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2024-09-14 14:30:00 UTC ]
The inaugural International Summit of Audio Publishers held September 10 in New York City drew 137 participants who discussed current market conditions, the impact of AI, and what is coming next for the booming industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
Translating image to sound is a difficult task, but a necessary one for some readers. The team behind the audiobook adaptation of Darrin Bell's acclaimed 2023 graphic novel 'The Talk' explains how it's done. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Spotify Audiobooks has partnered with W. W. Norton to produce and release the audiobook of Richard Powers' new novel 'Playground,' to be published in September 24. Spotify Audiobooks has been producing 10-15 titles monthly. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Political histories, a courtroom drama and the memoir of a daughter of the South Side illuminate the legacy of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-08-14 09:01:30 UTC ]
I’m an audiobook evangelist. I rarely go more than a few days without listening to one, and I’ll blast through two or three in a single road trip. But audiobooks are expensive and their prices don’t seem to be moving downwards like their printed counterparts. So, if you want to score a... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2024-08-12 15:12:55 UTC ]
London's Spiracle co-publishes independent houses' audiobooks and sells them to bookstore consumers using in-store cards with QR codes. The post UK: Spiracle Opens ‘Audiobook in a Card’ for Bookstores appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-08-05 18:30:21 UTC ]
New mysteries and thrillers out this week, as well as multi-cast audiobook mysteries to check out. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-08-02 15:15:00 UTC ]
Spotify will now offer more than 1,000 audiobooks from some 100 publishers distributed by Ingram Content Group, including Europa Editions, Milkweed Editions, G&D Media, Bard Press, and New Society Publishers, among others. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-26 04:00:00 UTC ]