Category: Audiobooks
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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PRH India Finally Enters Hindi Audiobook Market: A Milestone in Vernacular Publishing. But Why So Late, Nihar?
Leaving the big question, why has it taken the world’s largest trade publisher so long to wake up to this opportunity? And does Nihar Malaviya even know how many languages there are in India?
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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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Human: Good. AI: Bad. Perception, Prejudice, and the Creative Landscape in the Age of AI
AI-produced audio slammed for its low quality was actually created by humans. Luddite Fringe, look away now!
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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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Voxblock Stories for Schools: Unlocking the Power of Audiobooks – UK Reading Initiative
So they did want any parent would do when spotting a market opportunity, a social need and a daughter eager for more audiobooks: they created Voxblock.
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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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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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