Olivier Award-winning actor Noma Dumezweni and "Designated Survivor" actress Natascha McElhone have been commissioned by Canongate to narrate two new audio titles for release this autumn: Father Christmas and Me by Matt Haig, and The Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Audible and Kobo have launched audiobook platforms in Canada—and publishers are getting into the game, too. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
An Audible exclusive, the Bushes come to Hachette, and more in this month's audio news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo has launched an audiobook subscription service claiming to offer “the best value on a subscription plan in the category”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tom Hollander, who appeared in the BBC’s adaptation of The Night Manager and Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, is reading the audiobook for John le Carré's new novel A Legacy of Spies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lean back, dig your toes down into the sand and plug in. We have four novels perfect for the beach. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Audiobook and large print publisher W F Howes is boosting its editorial team to “bolster” its acquisitions programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
On April Fools' Day this year, Amazon spoofed itself with an introduction to PetLexa, an animal-friendly version of its Alexa voice assistant. Now, it's actually releasing something real--audiobooks for animals. Today, Audible announced a new brand of books with Cesar Millan, a longtime dog... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2017-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales at Simon & Schuster grew 10% in the second quarter of 2017, hitting $206 million (£158m). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins’ audiobook catalogue will now be available on a pay-per-use basis on bibliotheca’s cloudLibrary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The legendary comics creator is teaming with Amazon's Audible platform to produce a full cast multi-voice audiobook that will be aired as a serialized podcast. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the audio market on the rise Miriam Robinson looks at what publishers are doing in the space. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House is recording two editions of its Minecraft novel's audiobook - one narrated by actor Jack Black and the other by actress Samira Wiley - to reflect the fact that its protagonist is "gender neutral". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Historian Robert Caro shares some important lessons learned in his new audiobook 'On Power.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Naxos hooks Derek Jacobi, David Timson, and Sean Barrett to head the new full-cast recording of 'The Compleat Angler, Kevin Hart comes to Audible, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Total sales of audiobooks rose 18.2%, to an estimated $2.1 billion. Unit sales for the year were up even more, rising 33.9% over 2015, to 89.5 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
APA estimates show 2016's audiobook sales growth expanding by almost 20 percent again. Sixty-seven million Americans say they finished an audiobook. The post Audio Publishers Association: Annual Survey Cites a Third Year of Strong US Audiobook Sales Growth appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
“There’s a renaissance for spoken-word content and our media diet is expanding, but as the landscape becomes more saturated, audiobooks face greater and greater discoverability challenges,” said Tom Webster, v-p, strategy and marketing, at Edison Research. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Noteworthy recent audiobook releases include two memoirs, a short story collection, and a novel set during the Civil War. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
This month we are featuring short story collections, with a particular interest in female authors and/or protagonists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]