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 expanding the program...
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Category: Audiobook
Findaway Launches Wonderbook, a Hybrid Print-Digital Audiobook Player
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 is better known...
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Google Play Books 5.1.9 Adds Audiobook Download Quality Settings, Custom Skip Duration Settings
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. Google has slowly...
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Audible Settles Several More Class Action Lawsuits
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 false advertising and...
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What is the Appeal of Audiobooks?
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 give the new...
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Bookbub Branches Out, Now Offers Audiobook Deals in Partnership with Findaway
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 you can buy...
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Seven Places to Listen to Free Audiobooks
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 pulled together a...
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You Can Now Have Alexa Play a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Audiobook
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 Google Home. Interactive fiction...
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Apple & Audible Release Six Public Domain Audiobooks for Free
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 audiobooks in partnership...
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Amazon Adds Audiobooks to Freetime Unlimited
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 monthly fee (it's...
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The Audible App Arrives on Apple’s Apple Watch
When you tire of talking to the many gadgets Amazon launched today, you can have your watch talk to you. Audible released a new version of its app today, at...
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Audible Now Gives Subscribers Two Free Audible Original Titles Each Month
In 2013 Amazon launched Kindle First, a program where Amazon Prime subscribers could download one Amazon-published ebook for free each month. Audible launched its own version of this program...
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Amazon is Going to Pay Authors the Retail Rate for Audiobooks Borrowed in Kindle Unlimited
For the past several months authors have been objecting to Amazon adding their audiobooks to Kindle Unlimited without permission or payment. No one understood why that was occurring, not...
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Updated: Indie Authors’ Audiobooks Were (Are) Getting Dragooned Into Kindle Unlimited
If you are an indie author with ebooks in Kindle Unlimited and audiobooks sold through Audible, you should check to see if the latter have been pressed into Kindle...
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Amazon Just Changed Audible’s New Subscriber Bounties
Amazon just changed one of the bounties it pays on new Audible subscribers to bring it more in line with how Amazon's other bounties are awarded. Scott Carney brought...
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