Hallmark Publishing has partnered with Dreamscape Media, the publishing and entertainment arm of Midwest Tape, to produce and distribute its first line of audiobooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael G. R Tolkien, the eldest grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien, and Gerald Dickens, a great-grandson of Charles Dickens, have formed a "unique" collaboration to bring out an audiobook of the verse story WISH. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andersen Press is making an audio version of children’s book Elmer’s Christmas available to be played on a watch phone, in a step that comes as the much-loved character prepares to celebrate his 30th anniversary in 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Per an agreement announced November 19, John Wiley & Sons and RBmedia will partner to publish more than 650 Wiley audiobooks over the next three years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canadians say they listen to audiobooks while doing other things. In 2018, 54 percent of those surveyed by BookNet Canada prefer to listen on their phones. The post BookNet Canada: Sci-Fi, Women Leading Audiobook Consumption appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo has been slinging ebooks for years now, but it's still pretty new to the whole audiobook craze -- the Canadian company (and Rakuten subsidiary) only added spoken-word content to its catalog about a year ago. Thankfully, Kobo recently made it a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2018-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
W F Howes general manager Miles Stevens-Hoare and Enders Analysis’ Joseph Evans are to join radio futurologist James Cridland as the keynote speakers at The Bookseller’s AudioBook conference, held as part of FutureBook Live 2018 (30th November). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actor Christopher Eccleston has agreed to narrate the audiobook version of A J Hartley’s Cold Bath Street, published by the student-run, not-for-profit publishing house UCLan Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Touting 6 million ebooks and a $9.99 audiobook subscription, the new Walmart partnership with Rakuten Kobo gives the Canadian retailer what it hasn't had in the US market: brand recognition. The post Canada’s Rakuten Kobo Arrives in America at Walmart: Ebooks and Audiobooks appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the Association of American Publishers' StatShot Annual is citing, BookNet Canada's English-language market sees online retail edging up on physical-store retail, though print is flat in the first six months of 2018. The post In a ‘Steady’ First Half, BookNet Canada Sees Audiobook Purchases 4... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
PW will continue to offer news and feature coverage of physical and digital audiobooks, as well as monthly audiobook bestseller lists, but will no longer review audiobooks effective August 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Russian ebook distributor LitRes reports 45-percent growth year-over-year in ebook sales for the first half of this year. And Storytel, which ended its first year in May in the market, cites digital access over vast distances as a driver. The post Russia’s Growing Ebook and Audiobook Sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Women's fiction publisher Choc Lit has agreed a deal with unabridged audiobook publisher Soundings to co-brand audiobooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK audio production sector trade association The Radio Independents Group is relaunching as AudioUK, and with a broader remit, in the wake of the audiobook and podcasting boom, "to put audio production at the heart of the UK’s successful creative industries". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
This month we are listening to three memoirs and one novel that sounds like a memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Total audiobook sales rose 22.7% in 2017, to an estimated $2.5 billion, according to a report from the Audio Publishers Association. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The UK reports that audiobooks are most popular with men 25 to 44, and in Canada, there's a big jump from 2016 to 2017 in publishers producing audiobooks. The post Audiobooks in the Headlines: Wooing Guys in the UK, Winning Over Publishers in Canada appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Audiobook downloads rose 22% to a record £31m sales last year, according to new figures released by the Publishers Association to mark the start of Love Audio Week. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Public Lending Right (PLR) will be extended to cover ebooks and e-audiobooks borrowed from libraries from 1st July. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The oral tradition has been a part of the human condition for as long as we have been communicating. If you lost your audience after the first hour of “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” you could forget about a return engagement. Authors now sit in comfy studios and need not memorize their stories. But can... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]