Sentences with phrase «audiobook listeners read»

Audiobook listeners read or listened to an average of 15 books in the last year, and 77 percent of frequent listeners agreed or strongly agreed that «audiobooks help you finish more books.

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René d'Entremont the PR Director of Kobo stated, «While our customers read across all genres, the general fiction category is the most popular among our audiobooks listeners.

A good audiobook reader must sound as if he or she is reading to you, the listener, and not addressing a much wider, less personal audience.

A former chair of ALA's Notable Children's Recordings Committee and a member of the first - ever Odyssey Award Committee, she is an avid audiobook listener when she isn't reading, gardening, or folk dancing.

Of the three (overlapping) groups, audiobook listeners have the most diverse reading habits, while relatively fewer print readers consume books in other formats:

Check out our suggestions for both younger and older listeners to promote reading skills throughout the summer, encourage a love of reading, and increase quality family time through the power of audiobooks.

As a regular audiobook listener, I can confidently say that I'm not likely to listen to a computerized reading of an unabridged audiobook anytime soon.

Listen to best sellers: • The Girl on the Train • Truly, Madly, Guilty • The Power of Habit • Harry Potter • The Martian • A Man Called Ove • Homegoing • The Gene • When Breath Becomes Air • End of Watch A wide range of popular categories like: • Crime and Thrillers • Science Fiction • Fantasy • Romance • Classics • Novels • Mystery • Horror • Self - development • Mindfulness and meditation • Business • Children's books Features designed for the audiobook listener: • Chapter navigation • Listen over wifi, save on data • Download to your device for offline listening • Create clips of favorite passages and share with friends and on social media • Send any book in your library to your friends - their first book is on us • Bookmarking • Sleep mode, dark or light theme, variable narration speed, button - free mode and more • Control your listening experience with Cortana voice commands and button - free mode • Compatible with thousands of ebooks from Amazon - switch seamlessly between listening to your audiobooks and reading on your Kindle with Whispersync for Voice.

RB: Apparently there are many audiobook listeners who look for books read by «Dick Hill» regardless of the book's author or genre.

The survey also showed that 84 % of audiobook listeners also read a print book in the past year, and 56 % also read an e-book.

This is a small fraction of the existing Scribd ebook catalog, which now surpasses 500,000 titles, but it represents a milestone in the growing popularity of audiobooks and also includes a feature — pioneered by Amazon with its Whispersync for Voice technology — that allows readers and listeners to jump back and forth between reading an ebook and listening to the same title as an audiobook, keeping place across multiple devices.

While the growing popularity of audiobooks is likely influenced by podcasts — a trend recently discussed at this year's Tech Forum — audiobook listeners tend to be converted readers: around 36 % of respondents say they either «always» or «often» listen to audiobooks that they've previously read, and many show interest in bundling print with audiobooks or ebooks.

Key findings: Buying habits of Audiobook shoppers prove that British accents are favoured by American listeners according to an Audiobooks.com study Americans are almost three times as likely to buy a book read by a British narrator, and rate British voices higher on average Audiobooks.com, the second largest provider of audiobooks in North America, launches...

Add to that the fact that audiobook listeners have the most diverse reading habits --» 84 % of audiobook listeners also read a print book in the past year, and 56 % also read an e-book,» according to Pew Research Internet Project — and you can see how offering your work as an audiobook could translate to e-book and print sales of other titles.