Category: Audiobooks
Spotify adds Bloomsbury, forces Amazon to add audiobooks to Amazon Music
The kingmaker will be the big publishers, but it will be consumers that that will be the kingmakers’ kingmaker – TNPS 2020.
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Storytel US reports “a lot of tailwinds” from Spotify audiobooks move
Storytel US reports “a lot of tailwinds” from Spotify audiobooks move.
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Audible’s “first AI-powered search for audiobooks” fuel unfounded fears about the future of human narration
AI narration of audiobooks, while understandably initially perceived as a threat, can actually offer several benefits to human narrators, if they are willing to embrace the opportunity unfolding.
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Your coworker is probably listening to smut.
People are listening to smutty romance books when they’re at the office.
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Spotify helps HarperCollins bounce back after a challenging year. HC keeps quiet about AI
Given HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp is investing heavily in AI, we can therefore reasonably assume HarperCollins is going down that same route, but quietly.
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Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre signs MoUs with music streaming platform Anghami and audiobook provider Iqraaly
Anghami, with a catalogue of 57 million songs and 200,000 podcasts, is the first to sign up.
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Bonnier Books UK and Blackstone Publishing (US) add audiobook catalogues to Spotify
All indications so far are that Spotify’s audiobook offering is expanding the market in the...
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Audiobooks: subscription, digital libraries or à la carte? There’s room for all!
The Dutch experience, and the emerging picture from Spotify, shows very clearly there is room for all models, and that publishers and authors that eschew one or the other are simply missing out.
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Arabookverse-Beat partnership takes the globalisation of Arab literature to a new level
The partnership creates “a pairing uniquely positioned to deliver the optimum experience for...
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AI and the Future of the Audiobook Industry – It’s Not Either Or
The best practices will probably be somewhere in between. “Publishing professionals should...
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Seismic shift: Spotify bumps Apple. Rattles Audible. But no, Spotify audiobooks are not free
There is no “free” involved. You pay money and then get a choice of content and...
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Where does Finland’s obsession with audiobook erotica come from?
“But it turned out those artsy Scandinavian films really were just artsy Scandinavian films, not documentaries. This was more disappointing for my friends than for me.”
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