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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Category: Audiobook
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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How Do You Listen to Audiobooks?
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...
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How to Download Audiobooks from Google Play Books – DRM-Free!
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...
Continue readingAudiobook Distributor RBMedia Has Been Sold – And Not to Rakuten
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....
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New Estimates Suggest $2.5 Billion Were Spent on Audiobooks in the US in 2017
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...
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Amazon to Launch Audible in India in November (?)
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...
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Amazon Continues to Pay Unfairly Low Royalty Rate in Audible Romance, But is Finally Letting Authors Out of the Program
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...
Continue readingAudible is Giving Away a Kindle With New Annual Membership
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...
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