05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
Publishers Weekly goes into the studio as chef Marcus Samuelsson records his memoir
Celebrated chef Marcus Samuelsson can cook a chicken 200 different ways, but how does he take the heat of recording his memoir? We go into the studio to find out.
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
Music, comedy routines, q&as, and other creative additions enhance and distinguish the audio product
Whereas print books allow the reader the familiar heft of a novel, minimal eye strain, and the chance to inspire literary Missed Connections on Craigslist, and e-books offer a lightweight way to download up to 3,500 titles lightning fast and read everything from e-Fifty Shades of Grey to e-Think Like a Man without attracting undue attention, audiobooks aim for a different niche in the market.
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
Big names line up to narrate bestsellers.
How Johnny Depp ended up narrating the audiobook of Keith Richards' memoir, and other stories of A-listers landing in the recording studio.
12/30/2011 @ 07:00PM
It was another great year for audiobooks. Who could forget Tina Fey’s hilarious reading of her memoir, Bossypants? Or Samuel L. Jackson’s now famous narration of Adam Mansbach’s Go the F**K to Sleep? Here are the best of the best.
07/08/2011 @ 08:00PM
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.
02/07/2011 @ 12:00AM
Step into the season's best listening
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.
01/03/2011 @ 12:00AM
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.
11/29/2010 @ 12:00AM
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.
07/05/2010 @ 12:00AM
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).
07/05/2010 @ 12:00AM
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.
Barbara Vey
As readers we really don't know or necessarily care what goes into the making of a book. Our main concern is reading that amazing story that will transport us to other times and places and take us aw...
Elizabeth Bluemle
When the ship hits the rocks, what do you want to read? Lately, I've been thinking about this a lot, as friends and loved ones have been ricocheting through big changes of all kinds. What I've found, ...
Rose Fox
Mythopoeic and Sturgeon Awards finalists; Spectrum winners....
Adam Boretz
Today, our Informal Audie Awards Poll goes out with a bang: this is the Big One, the Highest Honor, the Superbowl of Audio Awards. Today we bring you, Audiobook of the Year....
| 1 | Guilty Wives James Patterson / Author, David Ellis / Author, January Lavoy / Read by |
| 2 | Confession John Grisham / Author, Scott Sowers / Read by |
| 3 | Evidence Jonathan Kellerman / Author, John Rubinstein / Read by |
| 4 | Calico Joe John Grisham / Author, Erik Singer / Read by |
| 5 | Sixth Man David Baldacci / Author, Ron McLarty / Read by, Orlagh Cassidy / Read by |
| 6 | Cross Fire James Patterson / Author, Andre Braugher / Read by, Jay O. Sanders / Read by |
| 1 | Killing Lincoln (unabr.) Bill O'Reilly / Author, Martin Dugard / Author, Bill O'Reilly / Read by |
| 2 | Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting Wayne W. Dyer / Author |
| 3 | Every Day a Friday (unbar.) Joel Osteen / Author, Joel Osteen / Read by |
| 4 | Power to Shape Your Destiny!: 7 Strategies for Massive Results Anthony Robbins / Author, Anthony Robbins / Read by |
| 5 | The Secret Rhonda Byrne / Author, Rhonda Byrne / Read by |
| 6 | Imagine: How Creativity Works Jonah Lehrer / Author, Jonah Lehrer / Read by |
