Category: Audiobooks
Adapt and Thrive: AI Translation is the Game-Changer’s Game-Changer
by Mark Williams | Dec 7, 2024 | AI, Audible, Audiobooks, Publishing Controversies, Spotify, Translations | 0 |
Imagine for one moment if, somehow, the Bertelsmann buy-out of Simon & Schuster had been successful and the ever-tuxedoed Count Dohle was still emerging from the grave each night to dictate PRH policy. There would have been no Spotify deal and no unprecedented surge in the fortunes of the audiobook industry.
Read MoreThe $1.275 billion UK audiobook market
by Mark Williams | Dec 1, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, UK | 0 |
By recognising and embracing the full potential of AI across the industry, publishers, authors and narrators alike can surf this new wave of possibilities, instead of being left behind.
Read MoreSpotify for (Some) Authors – the Spotify Seismic Shift Continues
by Mark Williams | Nov 27, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Spotify | 0 |
Why, the publisher might ask, would a mere author want that kind of valuable info? This is the thin end of the wedge. The slippery slope. What next, letting authors see the actual sales records for their books?
Read MoreSpotify adds Bloomsbury, forces Amazon to add audiobooks to Amazon Music
by Mark Williams | Nov 22, 2024 | Audible, Audiobooks, Spotify | 0 |
The kingmaker will be the big publishers, but it will be consumers that that will be the kingmakers’ kingmaker – TNPS 2020.
Read MoreStorytel US reports “a lot of tailwinds” from Spotify audiobooks move
by Mark Williams | Oct 29, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, USA | 0 |
Storytel US reports “a lot of tailwinds” from Spotify audiobooks move.
Read MoreAudible’s “first AI-powered search for audiobooks” fuel unfounded fears about the future of human narration
by Mark Williams | Aug 16, 2024 | AI, Audible, Audiobooks, USA | 0 |
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.
Read MoreYour coworker is probably listening to smut.
by Mark Williams | Aug 11, 2024 | Audiobooks | 0 |
People are listening to smutty romance books when they’re at the office.
Read MoreSpotify helps HarperCollins bounce back after a challenging year. HC keeps quiet about AI
by Mark Williams | Aug 11, 2024 | Audiobooks, Ebooks, USA | 0 |
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.
Read MoreAbu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre signs MoUs with music streaming platform Anghami and audiobook provider Iqraaly
by Mark Williams | Jun 13, 2024 | Arab publishing, Audiobooks, Middle East, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
Anghami, with a catalogue of 57 million songs and 200,000 podcasts, is the first to sign up.
Read MoreBonnier Books UK and Blackstone Publishing (US) add audiobook catalogues to Spotify
by Mark Williams | May 21, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, UK, USA | 0 |
All indications so far are that Spotify’s audiobook offering is expanding the market in the...
Read MoreAudiobooks: subscription, digital libraries or à la carte? There’s room for all!
by Mark Williams | May 2, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital Libraries, Digital subscription, Netherlands | 0 |
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.
Read MoreArabookverse-Beat partnership takes the globalisation of Arab literature to a new level
by Mark Williams | Apr 18, 2024 | Abu Dhabi, Arab publishing, Audiobooks, MENA publishing | 0 |
The partnership creates “a pairing uniquely positioned to deliver the optimum experience for...
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