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OverDrive to “Acquire” Part of RBdigital

23 June, 202023 June, 2020Audiobook, OverdriveLeave a comment

Overdrive just announced they are “buying” part of RBdigital, although given that both companies are owned by KKR, this is really more of a reorganization than...

Audible is Retiring One of Its Older Audiobook File Formats

28 May, 202028 May, 2020Audiobook3 Comments

Earlier this week a less than reliable blog reported that Audible was “moving to an enhanced ebook format”. Unlike that blog’s “exclusive hardware leaks”, there was...

Amazon No Longer Pays Royalties on Audiobooks Redeemed With ACX Promo Codes

26 March, 202026 March, 2020Amazon, Audiobook4 Comments

For the longest time now Amazon has provided authors and publishers who distributed their audiobooks though ACX with promo codes that could be given to reviewers,...

Goodreads Doesn’t Think Audiobooks are Books

13 March, 202014 March, 2020Amazon, Audiobook12 Comments

Wikipedia has an ongoing problem where its more sexist editors constantly question whether a woman is “notable” enough to merit a page on the site. This...

UK to End VAT on eBooks (But Not Audiobooks)

12 March, 202012 March, 2020Audiobook, Taxes2 Comments

After a decade of lobbying bu authors and book publishers, the UK government announced this week that the Value Added Tax collected on the sale of...

Amazon is Extending the Audible Caption Settlement to All Publishers and Authors – Will You Disable This Feature?

9 February, 20209 February, 2020Amazon, Audiobook10 Comments

I am sure that you have seen the news this past week about Audible Captions, and how Amazon has settled the lawsuit by agreeing to give...

Publishers Threw the Public Under the Bus in Their Win Over Audible Captions

7 February, 20208 February, 2020Amazon, Audiobook13 Comments

We still don’t know the specifics of the settlement agreement that ended the lawsuit that seven publishers filed against Amazon over Audible Captions, but one thing...

Audible Settles with Publishers in Audible Caption Lawsuit

15 January, 202015 January, 2020Amazon, Audiobook5 Comments

Remember that lawsuit from last August over Audible’s new captioning feature, the feature that everyone is publishing was soooo absolutely certain was infringing on copyright? Well,...

AAP Files Doomed Lawsuit Over Audible’s Caption Feature, Alleges Copyright Infringement

23 August, 201923 August, 2019Amazon, Audiobook, Lawsuit9 Comments

When detractors complained after Audible launched Audible Captions last month, I asked myself how anyone could know that this feature infringed on copyrights when no one...

Publishers’ Audiobook Sales Increased 24% in 2018

18 July, 201918 July, 2019AudiobookOne Comment

The Audio Publishers Association released the results of a survey yesterday that showed audiobook sales for a limited group of publishers totaled $940 million in 2018, up...

Audible Launches Fix for SF, Fantasy Audiobooks

17 July, 20199 February, 2020Amazon, Audiobook10 Comments

I have probably told you this once or twice, but one reason I don’t listen to audiobooks is the authors I like to read often use...

Amazon Prime Subscribers Can Get One Year of Audible for $119, and Add an Echo Hockey Puck for $0.99

27 June, 201927 June, 2019Amazon, Audiobook2 Comments

Amazon has a deal right on a one-year Audible subscription, and it’s only available to Prime subscribers. Amazon Prime subscribers who do not currently have an...

Audible Renames Audible Romance Package as “Audible Escape”

12 June, 201912 June, 2019Amazon, AudiobookOne Comment

Audible launched its Netflix-style subscription service in late 2017, the focus was strictly on romance audiobooks. Now it is beginning to look like Audible will be...

Findaway Launches Wonderbook, a Hybrid Print-Digital Audiobook Player

2 May, 20192 May, 2019Audiobook, Digital LibraryLeave a comment

Cleveland-based Findaway gets most of its attention on this blog for its audiobook distribution (as well as services like Chirp) but in the library market it...

Google Play Books 5.1.9 Adds Audiobook Download Quality Settings, Custom Skip Duration Settings

9 April, 20199 April, 2019Audiobook, e-Reading Software, Google BooksOne Comment

When Google started selling audiobooks last January, the Play Books Android app made the experience so frustrating that only masochists would try it more than twice....