Shifting Audiobook Habits for Mindfulness

A reader comes to terms with the role audiobooks play in her ability to be more mindful for the sake of her mental health, and considers reading life solutions. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'

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Independent Publishers Bet on Hot Audiobook Market

The thriving digital audiobook market is adding to small and medium-sized publishers' bottom lines. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audiobook sales soar 20% in US

Audiobook sales rose 20% in the US last year, according to the Audio Publishers Association. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Is Using This Data to Pitch Canvas Ads to Mobile-Minded Marketers

Almost a year after Facebook rolled out its Canvas ad unit at Cannes, the social network is releasing data about the mobile product, which allows for entire campaigns to be built inside of it. Ford, Target, Nike, Samsung, Little Caesars, Apple, Procter & Gamble and L'Oreal are among the... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can Libro.fm Turn Digital Audiobooks into a Revenue Stream for Indies?

The Seattle start-up, which just launched its platform, wants to be the go-to digital audiobook site for indies. Even with the support of the Big Five, it's still not clear how much of a difference it will make for its 85 partner bookstores. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Piatkus acquires The Mind Workout

Piatkus has acquired The Mind Workout: Twenty Steps to Emotional Fitness by mental health coach Mark Freeman. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookBeat sounds out UK audiobook market

Swedish audiobook business BookBeat, part of Bonnier Books, could launch in the UK ahead of Storytel, Sweden's largest audiobook business. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audiobooks in Production: April 2016

Jeff Bridges narrating 'The Night Before Christmas' and other audiobook projects currently in the works. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible's Harry Potter audiobooks hit one million unit sales

Sales of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter audiobooks through Audible have already reached one million copies, according to the company. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat Re-Ups With DIY-Minded Startup for More Holiday Content

Brit + Co will be the primary holidays channel going forward on Snapchat's Discover portal, which gives about two dozen media companies, such as Vice, CNN and Daily Mail, a publishing platform to reach the ephemeral app's young audience. The Brit + Co-Snapchat relationship began during the 2015... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Teams with Hoopla to Offer Audiobooks to Libraries

HarperCollins chief digital officer Chantal Restivo-Alessi, said the agreement enables libraries "to try a different approach to purchasing." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Removal of r.r.p. shifts power to booksellers, Irish retailers report

Booksellers should have the power to price books themselves, as removing the r.r.p. gives retailers more flexibility, Irish booksellers have testified.     Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Happiness to mindfulness, via wellbeing: how publishing trends grow

From cod to colouring, fashions come and go in books. What do they tell us about our culture, and can we predict what’s next? After the long, wet winter, the season is finally on the turn. I know this partly because the instinct to hunker down in a nest of books is giving way to an urge to... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audiobook Publishers Go Big On Full-Cast Productions

New technology and the growth of the audiobook market are driving a boom in full-cast productions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the Booth: Audiobook Notes, March 2016

New audiobooks narrated by Orange is the New Black's Kate Mulgrew, the X-Files's David Duchovny, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shifting Thoughts on Agency Pricing: Shatzkin’s Pivot

‘Amazon demonstrated dazzling marketplace power,’ writes Mike Shatzkin, in what he presents as a new narrative on relations between the retailer and the Big Five. ‘Agency in 2010 Was a Strategy; By 2015 a Surrender’ By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson n an interesting... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Consumer Confidence: A Recessionary State of Mind

Nielsen sees 55 percent of those surveyed on global consumer confidence saying that in the fourth quarter of 2015, they believed the were in recession. The post Consumer Confidence: A Recessionary State of Mind appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CUP to shift 45 ELT jobs overseas

Cambridge University Press is cutting 45 editorial and production roles out of its English Language Teaching division in Cambridge, asking staff to move to "other Press publishing centres outside the UK". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Best Audiobooks of 2015

This past year was another landmark in the audiobook world, with growth in sales and the number of new titles. We pick our favorites from among the 250-plus audiobooks that PW reviewed. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Publishers Are Marketing Digital Audiobooks

Publishers are trying different marketing techniques to differentiate their audiobooks in a crowded market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Generational shift in Bookseller 100

This year's Bookseller 100—our annual list of the main movers and shakers in the book trade—marks a generational shift. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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