Category Archives: Audiobooks

[ad_1] Amazon is offering free access to Audible Premium for three months as part of its Prime Day sales offer. This makes for a great offer considering that Audible happens to be one of the best apps for listening to audiobooks or podcasts. It normally costs $15 a month, which means there is $45 to […]

[ad_1] Podcasts have taken off as one of the hottest mediums in the media landscape. You can learn something; you can connect with the hosts; you can deep dive on a chosen subject; you can do it all while driving your car. Why, then, have audiobooks been left on the shelf? Pardon the pun. There […]

[ad_1] The Frankfurt-based Bookwire GmbH announced the launch of its new WAY service or ‘We Audiobook You’, PublishingPerspective reported. This essentially allows audiobook publishers to explore advanced synthetic voice options to record audiobooks instead of human voice artists. It’s very important for us to keep in mind with this technical innovation that human voices and […]

[ad_1] Digital book sales have been in a state of freefall all year long, in the United States. eBook revenues were down 8.3% for the month as compared to April 2021 for a total of $84.3 million. The Downloaded Audio format was up 5.6% for April, coming in at $66.6 million in revenue. Physical Audio, […]

[ad_1] Apple Books has not received much love in iOS 15, but that will all change when iOS 16 comes out this Fall. The reading app will receive new options that allow you to customize the reading experience for your needs. Choose reading themes for different environments and moods or change font, spacing, text size […]

[ad_1] Digital book and audiobook piracy is running rampant in Italy, with no end in sight. The Publishers Association issued a report that stated that book piracy was estimated at $856.7 million dollars and cost over 5,400 jobs. The estimated impact of acts of piracy in 2021—fewer copies of books sold, fewer downloads of ebooks […]

[ad_1] RBMEDIA is the largest audiobook publisher in the world, has announced its entry into the French-language audio market through its acquisition of French audiobook publisher Éditions Thélème. That brand will be home to the existing Éditions Thélème audiobooks catalog and all new French-language titles published by RBmedia in the future. This news comes hot […]

[ad_1] Kobo is expanding further into Italy a brand new partnership with lafeltrinelli.it, IBS.it and Libraccio.it and a whole new Rakuten Kobo ecosystem. This will give booklovers a new opportunity to listen to audiobooks and read ebooks. The new collaboration that will allow Italian book lovers to move easily between the three platforms—gaining access to […]

[ad_1] Spotify has announced that they are going to be implementing a freemium model for audiobooks for people who are not a paid subscriber. So when the company eventually incorporates a million audiobook titles from their purchase of Findaway, you will be able to listen to them, while having ads play during playback. “We’ve moved […]