Can We Please Stop Pretending Listening To Audiobooks Is Reading?
Why listening to audiobooks isn’t reading: exploring the cognitive differences between auditory and visual text processing in literacy development.
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Category: Digital Audio
Iceland’s Storytel Dispute: A Clash of Values
“Literature and art are created exclusively by artists and not machines,” says the IWA, seemingly completely ignorant of the history of global literature, where technology has augmented – not replaced – human creativity.
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Spotify pays podcasters $100 million in Q1. Publishers and other creatives, wake up and smell the coffee!
This news carries significant implications for the audiobook publishing landscape, particularly given Spotify’s own disruptive entry into this market.
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Spotify’s Transition from Publishing Industry Joke to Industry Innovator Award: A Tsunami in the Making
The parallels with AI could not be more compelling.
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Perlego’s new Read Aloud feature, in beta, offers learners meaningful audio-access to textbooks
Apparently, more than one third of Perlego users prefer audio, so this could be hugely popular if it delivers as well as they suggest.
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Legacy TV Consumption Falls. Streaming TV Rises. Lessons For Book Publishers From Streaming’s Success
Put simply, publishing needs to move with the times. And of course it will, eventually. The history of publishing is the history of active resistance, passive acceptance and eventual embrace.
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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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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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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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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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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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