Category: Audiobooks
Human: Good. AI: Bad. Perception, Prejudice, and the Creative Landscape in the Age of AI
by Mark Williams | Mar 29, 2025 | AI, Audiobooks, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
AI-produced audio slammed for its low quality was actually created by humans. Luddite Fringe, look away now!
Read MoreLegacy TV Consumption Falls. Streaming TV Rises. Lessons For Book Publishers From Streaming’s Success
by Mark Williams | Mar 18, 2025 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Ebooks | 0 |
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.
Read MoreVoxblock Stories for Schools: Unlocking the Power of Audiobooks – UK Reading Initiative
by Mark Williams | Mar 2, 2025 | Audiobooks, UK | 0 |
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.
Read MoreBookBeat has paid out $327 million (SEK 3.5 billion) to publishers and authors since it launched in 2015
by Mark Williams | Feb 23, 2025 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription | 0 |
How much did PRH authors lose out on when Dohle pulled all PRH titles from streaming platforms?
Read MoreLegible and CAMB.AI Partner to Reshape Audiobook Production with AI
by Mark Williams | Feb 23, 2025 | AI, Audiobooks | 0 |
Press releases are often full of hype and low on substance, but Legible has a proven record for breaking ground in digital publishing,
Read MoreSpotify Plans Expanded Audiobook Operations in Europe and Sweden
by Mark Williams | Feb 22, 2025 | Audiobooks, Europe, Spotify, Sweden | 0 |
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.
Read MoreSpotify Partners with The Black List and The Jed Foundation to Support Mental Health Narratives
by Mark Williams | Feb 12, 2025 | Audiobooks, Spotify | 0 |
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.
Read MoreBookBeat reported 21% growth in 2024, reaching $125 million revenue, and topped one million paying users
by Mark Williams | Feb 11, 2025 | Audible, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Spotify, Storytel, Sweden | 0 |
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.
Read More366 Million Ebooks Among OverDrive’s 739 Million Digital Download Tsunami, Redux
by Mark Williams | Feb 1, 2025 | Audiobooks, Digital Libraries, Ebooks | 0 |
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.
Read MoreAudiobooks – Bookwire’s “All About Audio” Comes To Italy, But The Bigger Message Is Global
by Mark Williams | Feb 1, 2025 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Italy | 0 |
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.
Read More366 million ebooks among OverDrive’s 739 digital download tsunami as Kindle Unlimited pays out $645 million to self-publishers in 2024
by Mark Williams | Jan 26, 2025 | Audiobooks, Digital Libraries, Ebooks | 0 |
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.
Read MoreGoldman Sachs Gives Spotify a “GREAT” Rating Thanks to Audiobooks. It’s Time for the Society of Authors to Eat Humble Pie
by Mark Williams | Jan 18, 2025 | Audiobooks, Spotify | 0 |
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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