Survey Finds Spotify Audiobooks Popular, but Compensation Questions Remain

As part of its efforts to force Spotify to be more transparent about how it pays authors, the Coalition of Concerned Creators commissioned a survey to discover how audiobook listeners felt about the service. It found mixed results. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Tablet Adoption Lowers Reading of Physical Books, Newspapers, Survey Shows

More than half of tablet adopters are reading books and other media on their tablet screens instead of relying on paper. Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2012-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Audible hits WP 7.5: gesture controlled audiobooks, but no voice control

It didn't land in the Marketplace yesterday as announced, but Amazon's Audible audio book app for Windows Phone 7.5 is now available for download. This Metro-fied version of the app is free to install (including some short samples to get you started), and signing in with your Amazon account lets... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital audiobook service launches

A new subscription-based digital audiobook service has launched with ambitions to double the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Sports Aggregator Finds a Home: Gannett Buys Quickish

The folks at Gannett, the newspaper publisher best known as the people who bring you USA Today, also want to be known for online sports. Here&rsquo;s another move in that direction: The company&rsquo;s USA Today Sports Media Group has acquire ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Review: Finding oneself in 'Elsewhere, California'

Dana Johnson's first novel explores the space between reinvention and ruin through the eyes of the child of African Americans who migrated from the South to L.A.Elsewhere, California Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York books find foreign audience

TV shows and Hollywood blockbusters aren't America's only cultural exports. The book industry is also expanding overseas, according to a report released Friday by the Association of American Publishers that looks at book exports for the first time. Exports by U.S. publishers, which are dominated... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book review: A father and son find common ground in 'Along the Way'

Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez examine the nature of their relationship and the ways it's shaped their lives in their loving, candid new memoir.Martin Sheen was a struggling 21-year-old stage actor when his first son Emilio was born. Sheen, seventh of 10 children in a family that knew him as... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC finds Real detectives story

HarperCollins has bought world rights in The Real Lady Detective Agency, an account of a true-... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Microsoft finds a nook of its own in Barnes & Noble

Microsoft seems to have found an open window back into the ebook business, closing the door on an ongoing patent dispute with its new partner. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kindle remains Amazon's bestseller in first quarter 2012

Amazon.com has announced a 19% hike in worldwide media sales, which include books, DVDs... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Finding the Right Role for Trade Paperbacks

The trade paperback format lost some ground to ebooks through the first nine months of 2011, according to Bowker Market Research, but it remained the most popular print category. Still, the question being asked is what consumer segment the trade paperback is serving in a time when ebooks often... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible to pay authors $1 per audiobook sale

Amazon is paying authors $1 for every audiobook they sell if they sign up to its Audible Author... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One in five U.S. adults has read an ebook, survey says

E-books are catching on quickly, with more than one in five U.S. adults having read an electronic book in the last year. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Offers Publishers a Way to Monetize Content With Surveys

Google has announced a new way for online news publishers to gate access to their premium content, by requiring would-be readers to fill in a survey first. Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audiobooks are going Hollywood

Audible.com has persuaded stars such as Dustin Hoffman, Kate Winslet and Samuel L. Jackson to lend their voices to classic novels for the popular media format.When it came to reading a book out loud, Dustin Hoffman was a bit rusty. The last time he had done something similar was in New York City... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Finding the Right Course

It’s not just trade bookstores that are feeling the pinch from online retailers and other discounters. At the National Association of College Stores’ Campus Market Expo held earlier this month at the Salt Lake Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, NACS’s OnCampus Research division... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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