At a recent speaking engagement, I was asked, “Why do we need libraries if we can just download books for free?” Simply put, libraries don’t get books for free but loan them to patrons for free. It ...

Like e-books, the use of audiobooks grew substantially during the pandemic for both kids and adults. With many school and public libraries closed for print book checkout, readers had to resort to ...

The audio giant, which is offering 300,000 audiobooks for purchase at launch, is positioning its books service as separate from its Premium subscription for music and podcasts. By J. Clara Chan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chirp Audiobooks allows you to listen to thousands of audiobooks at a fraction of the cost. The site features limited-time deals ...

Total revenue across the 1,325 publishers that report results to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot program fell 4% in April compared to a year ago. The decline was due, in part, to a 12 ...

Advances in digital technology over the past 25 years have fueled an unprecedented surge in audiobook sales and demand, and transformed the audio category in nearly every way, from production through ...

Major publishers have all reported that the second quarter of 2019 that audiobook sales are increasing and ebooks are doing quite well. Audiobooks are not really a surprise, everyone is busy ...

Amazon’s Audible, the world’s largest digital audiobook distributor, launched a new service that offers free audiobooks for children and teenagers who are staying at home to avoid exposure to the new ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Starting with fiction and romance, the company says the feature “makes the creation of audiobooks more accessible ...