Spotify Premium users in Canada, Ireland and New Zealand will have access to 15 hours of monthly audiobook listening at no extra cost starting on April 9. Subscribers in the US, UK and Australia have had access to this perk for several months. The Premium audiobook catalog now includes more than... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-04-02 18:24:44 UTC ]
A shift of focus on libraries to retail channels and an aggressive acquisition of new titles—including, recently, works by John LeCarré and Jon Fosse—led to nearly $30 million in revenue in 2023, a 39% jump for the Ohio-based audiobook publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
When it came time for debut author Brent Underwood to record the audiobook for his book 'Ghost Town Living,' about the California mining town he calls home, he decided to build a makeshift studio in the long-abandoned silver mine at the heart of his story. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
At the 29th annual Audies, presented by the Audio Publishers Association and held in Los Angeles on March 4, winners across 27 categories were announced. The night's biggest honor, Audiobook of the Year, went to 'Surrender,' written and narrated by Bono. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
Our pre-London Book Fair Rights Roundup brings together work originating in Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Québec. The post Rights Roundup: Dreamscape’s Jon Fosse Audiobooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-03-02 01:43:41 UTC ]
Spotify's... interesting pricing plans, it "It" books of March, and more of the day's bookish news: Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-03-01 21:43:16 UTC ]
Spotify has added another subscription option. This time around, it's offering a plan that has little to do with music. The Audiobooks Access Tier (which is US-only for now) offers 15 hours of audiobook listening each month for $10. You'll have access to Spotify's library of more than 200,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-03-01 18:08:29 UTC ]
In the audiobook oral history “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,’” a cast of dozens fondly revisits a now-classic film. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-03-01 14:12:30 UTC ]
Spotify has added a new option that gives users 15 hours to listen to audiobooks for $9.99—a dollar less than a Premium subscription, which offers the same 15 hours per month, plus ad-free music, for $10.99. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
In Streisand’s new audiobook recording for her chatty, brick-size memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” the superlative diva adds a little freestyling. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-02-23 12:45:40 UTC ]
I always imagined, that, given the choice, I would read my own audiobook. I had heard memoirs often sounded best in the author’s throat—something about the familiar tang of the hardship unspooled. But had I written a memoir? A bookseller acquaintance asked me that a year before the publication... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-22 09:54:39 UTC ]
Job cuts add to costs for streaming service but it gains 10m premium subscribers in fourth quarterSpotify’s push beyond music has tipped the streaming service into the red again, after it acquired the rights to 200,000 audiobooks for premium subscribers, with Prince Harry’s autobiography and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-02-06 15:45:35 UTC ]
The actor reads “Collision of Power,” a new memoir by the famed former editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-02-02 10:00:17 UTC ]
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 ]
A UK-US deal, the Open Road-owned Bloodhound in the UK is to see Dreamscape produce at five audiobooks from its list monthly. The post UK-US: Open Road’s Bloodhound Books in Audiobook Deal With Dreamscape appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-01-19 20:47:58 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 ]