Category: Audiobooks
BookBeat has paid out $327 million (SEK 3.5 billion) to publishers and authors since it launched in 2015.
How much did PRH authors lose out on when Dohle pulled all PRH titles from streaming platforms?
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Legible and CAMB.AI Partner to Reshape Audiobook Production with AI
Press releases are often full of hype and low on substance, but Legible has a proven record for breaking ground in digital publishing,
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Spotify Plans Expanded Audiobook Operations in Europe and Sweden
I would not be surprised later this year to see Spotify partnering with the India-based AI narration and translation platforms to open up the India market for Spotify Premium audiobooks.
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Spotify Partners with The Black List and The Jed Foundation to Support Mental Health Narratives
This initiative will offer five $10,000 grants to writers, aiming to end the stigma surrounding mental health and diversify mental health narratives in fiction.
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BookBeat reported 21% growth in 2024, reaching $125 million revenue, and topped one million paying users
So pity the PRH authors who missed out on a share of BookBeat’s accumulative royalty payout of SEK 3.5 billion ($320 million) to participating publishers and authors.
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366 Million Ebooks Among OverDrive’s 739 Million Digital Download Tsunami, Redux
A few days ago TNPS reported on the latest numbers from OverDrive, as record were broken yet again, with 366 million ebook downloads blowing a gaping hole in the preferred industry narrative that ebooks are out of fashion.
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Audiobooks – Bookwire’s “All About Audio” Comes To Italy, But The Bigger Message Is Global
The transformative role of audio content in the publishing landscape, at a time when print is facing serious challenges that can only be exacerbated over the next few years as new economic realities hit home.
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366 million ebooks among OverDrive’s 739 digital download tsunami as Kindle Unlimited pays out $645 million to self-publishers in 2024
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes and the January TNPS round up of the real numbers for ebooks that the industry collectively prefers to keep in the shade.
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Goldman Sachs Gives Spotify a “GREAT” Rating Thanks to Audiobooks. It’s Time for the Society of Authors to Eat Humble Pie
To put it in layman’s terms, Spotify is delivering for publishers and authors. But don’t expect any retraction or apology for getting it so wrong from the UK’s Society of Authors.
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Adapt and Thrive: AI Translation is the Game-Changer’s Game-Changer
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.
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The $1.275 billion UK audiobook market
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.
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Spotify for (Some) Authors – the Spotify Seismic Shift Continues
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?
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