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Spring 2020 Announcements: Audio Books
For yet another year, robust sales of digital audio have helped buoy the publishing industry. As the audio market continues to blossom, we welcome some new and some growing players, and many new voices, to our seasonal list.
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Rowman & Littlefield Has New Audiobook Program
Rowman & Littlefield Audio plans to release 35 audio titles this year and 50 in 2020 in subject areas that include history, self-help, business, and pop culture.
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Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Audio
For those on your gift list who enjoy listening to great books, here are five narrated by top stars of stage and screen.
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Pew Survey Finds More Adults Listening to Audiobooks
In a survey of 1,502 American adults conducted from January 8 to February 7 this year, Pew found that 20% of adults listened to an audiobook in the 12 months prior to the time the survey was conducted. In 2011, only 11% of adults said they listened to an audiobook.
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Oasis Debuts New Vintage Pulp Audiobook Imprint
Paperback Classics, a new audiobook imprint from Oasis Family Media, will bring vintage pulp paperbacks from the 1930s to the 1970s to audio.
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Charting the Changes in Spanish Audiobooks
Two new surveys show how the Spanish-language audiobook market is maturing.
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Audible Continues ‘Originals’ Expansion
Audible pushes on in its shift away from traditional audiobooks and toward original content by entering into a multi-year development deal with Skybound Entertainment to create multiple audio-only originals available exclusively to Audible subscribers.
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New Directions Enters the Audiobook Market
New Directions Publishing has launched an audiobook program, and plans to end the year with eight audio format releases and double its slate for next year.
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Audible's Captions Program Stirs Fears, Frustration Among Publishers
The new speech-to-text program from Audible, still in beta, has unnerved publishing industry members, with one major publisher calling it "a clear violation of our terms of sale."
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Fall 2019 Announcements: Audio
The double-digit sales increases of digital audio reported by many publishers over the past several years continue, with no signs of slowing.
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