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Gaiman Curates Audio Line for Audible
Audible has teamed with Neil Gaiman to do an audiobook series curated by the bestselling author.
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Audible Gets Hollywood Stars to Read Audiobooks
Audible.com, the provider of digital spoken-word entertainment, is introducing a line of audio performances by some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, including Dustin Hoffman and Nicole Kidman.
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Sounds of Autumn: Fall 2011 Audio Listings
By now, the usual flurry of spring and summer conferences—replete with giveaway ARCs and advance audio samplers—have whet the appetites of audiobook buyers and listeners for new fall titles. We've sifted through the latest offerings from audiobook publishers and have compiled our own sampler of sorts, of selected highlights for the season.
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Focus on Audio Books: Spring 2011
A look at the state of audio books from three different angles.
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Case Study: The Pale King
Converting any book to audio is an exacting endeavor. When the book is written by a celebrated author known for his expansive, experimental style (think: footnotes, endnotes, digressions, jargon, acronyms) the process is that much more challenging. And when the book is an unfinished, fragmentary, posthumously published novel, the task looks almost impossible.
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The Storyteller
Scott Brick has narrated more than 500 books. Along the way, he's been feted (with 40 Earphones Awards, PW's own Listen Up Awards, and an Audie Award) and challenged (Scandinavian pronunciation). He shares his enthusiasm for the industry and lets us in on his preparation process (horror movies help).
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Getting the Word Out
The Audio Publishers Association is set to kick off its 14th annual June Is Audiobook Month campaign, designed to celebrate the industry and bring greater awareness of audiobooks. As formats and consumer habits have changed over the past 10 years—sometimes dramatically—audio publishers have kept pace with evolving marketing efforts. We checked in with the APA and publishers to see how they've been getting audio titles heard.
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Spring Audio 2011
Publishers' spring audio lists have taken shape, and there's a robust variety of offerings available to listeners. The season includes debuts from publisher Dreamscape Media and the children's imprint Candlewick on Brilliance Audio, and a new name for the former BBC Audiobooks America, now known as AudioGO.
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The 2010 Listen-Up Awards
In a year that kicked off with the rumbling of Eyjafjallajökull and stayed somber, we turned to audiobooks for escapism and edification—and we got more than we bargained for. The industry took the business of entertaining us very seriously and readers turned in unforgettable performances.
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Profiling Audiobook Customers
While consumers are changing the way they buy and listen to spoken-word audiobooks, the demographic makeup of the market has stayed pretty much the same, a recently released survey sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association found.
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Audio's Ups and Downs
The glaring takeaway from the Audio Publishers Association's statistical survey for 2009, which the group released early last week, is that while unit sales were up, revenue was down.
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Fall 2010 Audio Listings
Listeners can look forward to a bounty of audio selections this fall. Those who follow politics will find memoirs from members of the previous administration (Condoleezza Rice and President George W. Bush) as well as titles critical of the current White House residents (The Manchurian President; Washington Rules).
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