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Tag: Audiobooks
The Best Audiobook Narrators are True Artists. Let’s Celebrate Them.
June is Audiobook Appreciation Month, a time to celebrate the great art of audiobook narration in this, the Golden Age of Audiobooks — as it will be remembered once AI takes over. Read more
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Audie Awards (for Best Audiobooks) Announced
The night’s biggest honor, Audiobook of the Year, went to the memoir Surrender, written and narrated by Bono and published by Penguin Random House Audio … Other winners across the 27 awards catagories included Making It So, written and narrated by Patrick Stewart (Autobiography/Memoir); Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, narrated by Meryl Streep (Fiction); Leslie F*cking Jones, written and narrated by Leslie Jones (Humor); Poverty, by America, written by Matthew Desmond and narrated by Dion Graham (Nonfiction); and This Terrible True Thing, written by Jenny Laden and narrated Gail Shalan (Young Adult). Read More
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AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2023
We hope that this list will help you find your next favorite listen. Below, you’ll find AudioFile’s picks for the Best Audiobooks of 2023 in nine categories. Thank you to all of the authors, narrators, producers, and publishers who filled our year with good listening. Read more
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The Work of the Audiobook
THE WORLD OF FICTION is changing, and it is happening at 1.5X speed. According to British sociologist and book trade expert John B. Thompson, the market for audiobooks has grown astronomically since the turn of the 21st century. Once upon a time, publishers would pore over their catalogs, choosing only a select few titles to produce as audiobooks, a format that tended to account for about 10 percent of a book’s sales. These days, when an audiobook can make up anywhere from one to 50 percent of a book’s sales, publishers cover the spread by producing far more titles. From 2011 to 2017, the number of new audiobooks produced each year grew from 7,200 to more than 46,000. Read more
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Apple Unveils Suite of AI-Voiced Audiobooks
Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move that may mark the beginning of the end for human narrators. The strategy marks an attempt to upend the lucrative and fast-growing audiobook market – but it also promises to intensify scrutiny over allegations of Apple’s anti-competitive behaviour. Read more
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AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2022
The list, selected by AudioFile editors each year, recognizes audiobooks in nine categories: fiction, nonfiction and culture, mystery and suspense, memoir, biography and history, science fiction and fantasy, romance, young adult, and children and family listening. Read more
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Spotify Makes a Bet on Audiobooks
The streaming service that transformed the music industry is expanding into audiobooks, and will offer more than 300,000 titles on a pay-per-book model. Read more
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Scribd Plans to Go Public at $1 Billion Valuation
Scribed Inc., an online platform for e-books, podcasts and audio books, is in discussions to go public as soon as this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Read more
