Audiobook

The Audible App Arrives on Apple’s Apple Watch

20 September, 2018 // 15 Comments

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 long last making the app available on [Read More ...]

Audible Now Gives Subscribers Two Free Audible Original Titles Each Month

7 September, 2018 // 3 Comments

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 on [Read More ...]

Amazon is Going to Pay Authors the Retail Rate for Audiobooks Borrowed in Kindle Unlimited

23 August, 2018 // 3 Comments

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 even the [Read More ...]

Updated: Indie Authors’ Audiobooks Were (Are) Getting Dragooned Into Kindle Unlimited

8 August, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 Unlimited when you weren't looking. [Read More ...]

Amazon Just Changed Audible’s New Subscriber Bounties

4 August, 2018 // 6 Comments

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 my attention to the news that [Read More ...]

How Do You Listen to Audiobooks?

26 July, 2018 // 18 Comments

The recent revelation of Google making a play for the audiobook market with DRM-free audiobooks got me curious about audiobook consumption. Do you listen to audiobooks? How? I don't, and after being [Read More ...]

How to Download Audiobooks from Google Play Books – DRM-Free!

23 July, 2018 // 4 Comments

When Google started selling audiobooks in Play Books back in January I was quick to dismiss their service because the audiobook experience was simply awful. It was so bad that I concluded "Google [Read More ...]

Audiobook Distributor RBMedia Has Been Sold – And Not to Rakuten

17 July, 2018 // 0 Comments

Along with Findaway and Blackstone Audio, RBMedia is one of several small audiobook distributors operating in the shadow of Amazon's Audible. RBMedia was sold yesterday to private equity firm KKR. [Read More ...]

New Estimates Suggest $2.5 Billion Were Spent on Audiobooks in the US in 2017

25 June, 2018 // 3 Comments

The APA (Audio Publishers Association) released a new report last week that showed audiobooks generated $2.5 billion in sales in the USA last year, up 22.7% over 2016. The report is based on 1,009 [Read More ...]

Amazon to Launch Audible in India in November (?)

13 June, 2018 // 0 Comments

Following three years of development, rumors are coming in that Amazon plans to launch Audible in India in November. So says The Economic Times: Amazon plans to debut its audio book and [Read More ...]

Amazon Continues to Pay Unfairly Low Royalty Rate in Audible Romance, But is Finally Letting Authors Out of the Program

22 May, 2018 // 6 Comments

Amazon still hasn't fixed the ongoing fiasco that is Audible Romance. The new royalty payments for Q2 2018 today are still unreasonably low, but on the upside Amazon has allowed some authors to [Read More ...]

Audible is Giving Away a Kindle With New Annual Membership

30 April, 2018 // 0 Comments

During Audible's early years it would frequently offer discounts or bundles that combined an MP3 player and an Audible subscription. Those bundle offers petered out over the years, although Amazon [Read More ...]

Audible Responds to Audible Romance Royalty Fiasco With Form Letters, But No Real Communication or Solutions

30 March, 2018 // 1 Comment

When Audible revealed in late February that they were going to pay a 57 cent royalty for a ten-hour audiobook in the Audible Romance subscription service, authors were understandably dismayed. This [Read More ...]

Google Adds Bookmarks, Speed Controls, and More to Audiobooks in Google Play Books App

29 March, 2018 // 0 Comments

Google rolled out an update today for its Play Books app that fixed the frustrating experience of listening to audiobooks in that app shortly after Google started selling audiobooks two months ago. [Read More ...]

Smashwords Adds Audiobook Distribution via Findaway Voice

21 March, 2018 // 0 Comments

Smashwords has partnered with audiobook distributor Findaway to help authors turn their ebooks into audiobooks via Findaway's ACX competitor, Findaway Voices. This announcement comes about 9 months [Read More ...]

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