As indicated in a leak earlier this week, Amazon is updating the Kindle Paperwhite. The fifth-gen Paperwhite (which marks the first refresh in nearly three years) has a larger, 6.8-inch display, compared with the previous model's six-inch screen. The company says the 300 ppi screen is glare-free... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2021-09-21 13:00:32 UTC ]
Storytel reports seeing a rise in audiobook downloads in Russia by 45 percent in the last year. LitRes leads market. The post Audiobooks in Russia: Storytel and LitRes Cite Rising Interest appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-09-14 11:42:09 UTC ]
Booming audiobook sales and strong performances in some of its largest markets boosted profits up 55.1% at Penguin Random House in the first six months of 2021. Revenue rose 10.9%, to €1.80 billion. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Now might be a good time to buy an e-reader for school — or that end-of-summer vacation. Amazon has cut the price of the ad-supported 8GB Kindle Paperwhite to an all-time low of $71 in a one-day-only sale, well below the official $130 sticker. That's lower than what we saw just two weeks... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2021-08-29 15:44:54 UTC ]
Weruche Opia, best known for her role in Michaela Coel’s Bafta-winning series "I May Destroy You", will read the audiobook of the Nigerian essay collection Of This Our Country (The Borough Press) alongside fellow actor Oseloka Obi. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-26 15:58:01 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press is to release an audiobook featuring all of Shakespeares sonnets, narrated by Lolita Chakrabarti and Kenneth Branagh. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-25 16:30:36 UTC ]
Audible is releasing an audiobook of Peter Kay’s record-breaking autobiography The Sound of Laughter in September with two new and exclusive bonus chapters. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-25 06:53:06 UTC ]
Independent audiobook publisher W F Howes has landed rights to Val McDermid's new Allie Burns series, releasing the first of five audiobooks this week. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-20 14:12:25 UTC ]
Emmy award-winning Scottish actor Brian Cox has been confirmed as the audiobook reader for The Dark Remains, the new novel by Ian Rankin and William McIlvanney, published by Canongate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-18 21:48:07 UTC ]
Over the last decade there has been a push towards better representation in visual media. While movies and television have provided more examples of non-white characters in key roles, there has also been an uptick in linguistic diversity in film. Movies like Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, which slips... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-08-17 11:00:00 UTC ]
Dawn French will narrate an audiobook edition of Giles Andreae’s I Love My… picture books for Bolinda, the first time any of the series will be produced in audio. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-28 01:59:59 UTC ]
The digital arm of Lindhardt & Ringhof, Saga Egmont further expands its efforts to penetrate the Spanish-language audiobook market. The post Audiobooks: Denmark’s Saga Egmont Partners With Spain’s Roca Editorial appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-07-14 17:45:23 UTC ]
#LoveAudio, the Publishers Association's annual audiobook campaign, will return for a fifth year this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-10 01:47:32 UTC ]
HarperCollins is releasing a new unabridged audiobook of J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in three parts in September, read by Andy Serkis, who starred as Gollum in the blockbuster movies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-07 11:53:26 UTC ]
The Ashland, Ore.–based independent audiobook publisher is seeing double-digit growth for CDs and MP3-CDs thanks to new partnerships, even as other publishers abandon the formats. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling's Cormoran Strike series, written under the name Robert Galbraith, have hit an audiobook milestone for Little, Brown ahead of the fifth novel's paperback release. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-21 11:49:14 UTC ]
Publishing houses in Romania are working together to produce the Echo audiobook subscription platform, a first in its market. The post Beat Technology Is Developing Romania’s First Audiobook Program appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-06-14 04:05:13 UTC ]
Bookwire, the international e-book and audiobook distribution platform, is launching its services in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
In 2020, the Audio Publishers Association sales report finds more than 71,000 audiobooks were published in the US, up 39 percent over 2019. The post Audio Publishers Association Cites 12-Percent 2020 US Audiobook Revenue Growth appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-06-01 13:14:36 UTC ]
The Audio Publishers Association’s annual review of the audiobook market found another year of double-digit sales increases as well as a profound shift in listening habits. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-01 04:00:00 UTC ]