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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, 201917 July, 2019Amazon, Audiobook8 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....

Audible Settles Several More Class Action Lawsuits

7 April, 20197 April, 2019Amazon, Audiobook, LawsuitLeave a comment

A little over two years ago Audible was hit with several class action lawsuits that alleged that the Amazon subsidiary had engaged in bait-and-switch tactics and...

What is the Appeal of Audiobooks?

11 March, 201911 March, 2019Audiobook, Open Topic20 Comments

Last week's launch of Bookbub's new audiobook deals site, Chirp, inspired me to give audiobooks another try. I love deals (who doesn't) and I wanted to...

Bookbub Branches Out, Now Offers Audiobook Deals in Partnership with Findaway

5 March, 20196 March, 2019Audiobook, Marketing5 Comments

Bookbub has launched a new deals service to sell publisher audiobooks. On Tuesday they announced they had partnered with Findaway to launch Chirp, a site where...

Seven Places to Listen to Free Audiobooks

24 February, 201924 February, 2019Audiobook, Freebies, Tips and Tricks5 Comments

The internet is overflowing with nearly as many free audiobooks as ebooks. There are dozens if not hundreds of sites with free audiobooks, and I have...

You Can Now Have Alexa Play a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Audiobook

6 February, 20196 February, 2019Amazon, Audiobook, Interactive FictionOne Comment

Around this time last year I read about a startup called Select a Story that was developing interactive fiction stories for smart speakers like Alexa and...

Apple & Audible Release Six Public Domain Audiobooks for Free

18 December, 201818 December, 2018Audiobook, Freebies, iBooks3 Comments

Apple kicked off a new ebook marketing push yesterday with a new affiliate toolbox, and as part of that marketing effort it has also released six...

Amazon Adds Audiobooks to Freetime Unlimited

13 November, 201813 November, 2018Amazon, AudiobookLeave a comment

Before there was Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading, Amazon had Kindle Freetime, a kid-focused subscription service that offered kid-friendly ebooks, apps, and games for a low...

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