Spanish Publishing Rides the Growth in Audio
Demand for audiobooks expands, and publishers add more Spanish-language titles.
View ArticleThe Best Audiobooks of 2017
Last year, our team of audio reviewers listened to more than 200 titles. Here, we highlight our favorites from the year across several categories.
View ArticleHarperAudio Goes Retro with New Vinyl Audiobook Series
Following successful vinyl record releases by Amy Poehler and others, HarperAudio plans to produce a series of spoken word vinyl audiobook titles (with accompanying digital editions) in 2018.
View ArticleSpring 2018 Audio Announcements
Publishing's audio segment continues its rise in a season boasting a wide range of titles that reflect the industry's overall growth.
View ArticleSmashwords, Findaway Voices Team to Offer Audiobook Production, Distribution
Smashwords, a self-publishing and e-book distribution platform, is teaming with Findaway Voices to offer Smashwords authors access to Findaway's audiobook production and distribution network.
View ArticleApril 2018 Audio Books: In the Studio
F. Murray Abraham heads ‘Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales,’ FBI’s James Comey wraps up reading ‘Loyalty,’ and more in this month's audio news.
View ArticleMay 2018 Audio Books: In the Studio
Blackstone and Disney bring ‘Black Panther’ to audio, Lauren Groff's latest showcases the Sunshine State for Penguin, and more in this month's audio news.
View ArticleWitherspoon Brings Hello Sunshine to Audible
Audible Inc. has announced a partnership with Hello Sunshine, the cross-platform media brand founded by Reese Witherspoon that is dedicated to producing female-driven content.
View Article'Lincoln in the Bardo' Wins Top Honor at 23rd Annual Audie Awards
Actors, authors, producers, and other audiobook industry insiders gathered at the New York Historical Society in Manhattan on May 31 for the Audio Publishers Association’s 23rd Annual Audie Award gala...
View ArticleAudiobook Revenue Jumped 22.7% in 2018
Total audiobook sales rose 22.7% in 2017, to an estimated $2.5 billion, according to a report from the Audio Publishers Association.
View ArticleFall 2018 Audio Announcements
The new crop of fall audiobooks is here, and all the most popular genres are represented as the audio publishing segment continues to enjoy an era of plenty.
View ArticleAPA Revamps Audie Awards, Gala
In an effort to raise the profile of its most prestigious honor—the Audie Award—the Audio Publishers Association is moving the date for its annual Audie Awards Gala and streamlining the Awards themselves.
View ArticleChanges to PW's Audiobook Coverage
PW will continue to offer news and feature coverage of physical and digital audiobooks, as well as monthly audiobook bestseller lists, but will no longer review audiobooks effective August 1.
View ArticleWiley Teams with RBmedia for Audiobooks
Per an agreement announced November 19, John Wiley & Sons and RBmedia will partner to publish more than 650 Wiley audiobooks over the next three years.
View ArticleFutureBook Wants to Make Books 'More Compelling than Netflix'
At this year's FutureBook conference in London, attendees from across the U.K. worked to determine to how publishers could compete with rivaling forms of entertainment.
View ArticlePW 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.
View ArticleHallmark 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.
View ArticleSpring 2019 Audio Announcements
Audio publishers are finalizing their new titles for spring, and we’ve selected some highlights of the season ahead.
View ArticleLibro.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.
View ArticleAudible 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.
View ArticleSpanish 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.
View ArticleConsumer 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...
View ArticleAudible to Release Classic Baby-Sitters Club Series
All 131 titles in The Baby-sitters Club, Ann M. Martin’s beloved middle-grade book series, originally published by Scholastic between 1986 and 2000, will be available as digital audiobooks exclusively...
View ArticleFall 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.
View ArticleAudible'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."
View ArticleNew 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.
View ArticleAudible 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...
View ArticleCharting the Changes in Spanish Audiobooks
Two new surveys show how the Spanish-language audiobook market is maturing.
View ArticleOasis 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.
View ArticlePew 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....
View ArticleHoliday 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.
View ArticleRowman & 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.
View ArticleSpring 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...
View ArticleFall 2020 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. We’ve gathered some highlights from publishers’ fall audio...
View ArticleAll Signs Point Up for Audiobooks
The APA's annual sales survey found sales from 24 reporting publishers rose 16% in 2019 over 2018 and that the number of new titles produced increased 18% to over 60,000.
View ArticleAudible Rolls Out Lower-priced Subscription Plan
Audible is launching Audible Plus, a $7.95 per month service that will provide listeners will unlimited access to more than 68,000 hours of original content. In conjunction with the launch, the company...
View ArticleAudible Makes Improvements to ACX Terms
Following protests from authors and author groups, Audible has made more changes in its terms of use for independent authors using its ACX platform to create audiobooks.
View ArticleScribd Audio Launches with 40 Titles (Plus Lena Waithe and Daveed Diggs)
The lead launch title for Scribd Audio is 'Black Imagination' by Natasha Marin, originally released in print by McSweeney's. Scribd said it is looking to build its audiobook list by choosing diverse...
View ArticleRBmedia Creates New Spanish Unit, BookaVivo
RBmedia has formed BookaVivo, a new Spanish-language audio unit, and named former journalist Rosanne Lake to head the division.
View ArticleAPA Says Audiobook Sales Rose 12% in 2020
The Audio Publishers Association’s annual review of the audiobook market found another year of double-digit sales increases as well as a profound shift in listening habits.
View ArticleRBmedia Forms Ascent Audio Brand
RBmedia has formed a new business audio brand, Ascent Audio, which will house the publisher's 5,000 business audiobooks.
View ArticlePodium Elevates Narrators with 'AudioCollab' Initiative
Podium Audio has formed AudioCollab, a new program aimed at providing audio narrators with higher pay and other support services.
View Article'Project Hail Mary' Wins Audiobook of the Year
'Project Hail Mary' by Andy Weir and narrated by Ray Porter was named the Audiobook of the Year at the 2022 Audie Awards held March 4.
View ArticleB&N Adds New Audiobook Capability
Barnes & Noble, which has been revamping its digital audiobook offerings, has announced the launch of B&N Audiobooks. The new service has a catalog of more than 300,000 titles, and customers...
View ArticleAudiobooks: A Revolution in Format
The audiobook has made the move to center stage in a digital publishing world, writes ‘PW’ audio correspondent Shannon Maughan.
View ArticleGoogle Play Books Expands AI Audiobook Narration
Google Play Books has announced that publishers in six countries can now create, edit, publish, and sell auto-narrated audiobooks on its platform.
View ArticleAudiobook Growth Continues
The Audio Publishers Association’s annual sales survey found that the 28 member companies reporting to the APA had revenue gains of 25% in 2021, bringing the estimated industry total to $1.6 billion in...
View ArticleMacmillan Audio Releases Audiobook Version of Three Key Supreme Court...
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling on abortion, Macmillan Audio is publishing an audiobook edition of three key cases.
View Article'AudioFile' Turns 30
Robin Whitten turned her passion for audiobooks into one of the first publications to cover that medium. As 'AudioFile' marks its 30th birthday this summer, Whitten reflected on how the venture...
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