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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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Audible to Release Classic Baby-Sitters Club Series
All 131 titles in The Baby-sitters Club, Ann M. Martin’s beloved middle grade series, will be available as digital audiobooks exclusively from Audible on August 13.
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Consumer Use of Audiobooks Continues to Rise
Half of all Americans over the age of 12 have listened to an audiobook in the past year, according to a new consumer survey. Growth can be attributed to more people listening in cars and advances in technology.
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Spanish Audiobook Production and Sales Surge
The number-one market for audiobooks in Spanish published by companies in Spain and Latin America used to be the U.S., but that has changed in recent years.
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Audible Reveals Latest Emerging Playwrights Commissions
On February 7, Audible raised the curtain on the second group of theater playwrights selected to receive support from its $5 million Emerging Playwrights Fund to create original works.
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Libro.fm Brings Digital Audio to Indies
Amazon’s Audible subsidiary has dominated the downloadable audiobook market for more than a decade, but a Seattle-based rival is starting to challenge that dominance.
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Spring 2019 Announcements: Audio
Audio publishers are finalizing their new titles for spring, and we’ve selected some highlights of the season ahead.
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Hallmark to Publish Audiobooks
Hallmark Publishing has partnered with Dreamscape Media, the publishing and entertainment arm of Midwest Tape, to produce and distribute its first line of audiobooks.
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PW Adds Audio Clips to Reviews, Beginning With PRH
PW has begun embedding audio clips in not only the review of the audiobook, but in reviews in other formats as well. The first publisher to take part in the program is Penguin Random House.
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FutureBook Wants to Make Books 'More Compelling than Netflix'
At this year's FutureBook conference in London, attendees from across the U.K. discussed trends in downloadable audiobooks, voice technology, and podcasts, and how publishers could compete with rivaling forms of entertainment.
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