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The best thing about audiobooks in Google Play is that you are not supposed to cast or stream audiobooks over Bluetooth to listen to the books on your Google Home.

I'd love to know what you think about audiobooks in the comments below, as this is a very new part of the business for authors.

Does anyone else have a thought about the audio version of this book in particular or about audiobooks in general?

Not exact matches

Furiously, at 10 p.m. on a Friday night, I was back on the job, still steeping in rage about the bully and the audiobook (which — ironically enough — was titled Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames).

In it, they talk about their experiences recording The Yes Brain Audiobook, share which words they found the hardest to pronunciation, and more.

The study, which began in 2000, did not ask about e-books or audiobooks.

This hilarious and on - point audiobook gets real about how to find more real connections in the digital age, and its tips are even more resonant when said aloud.

The ultra light weight and long battery life allows me to just enjoy my music or audiobooks without worrying about a spent battery or extra weight in my pocket.

We hit quite a few bumps along the road in producing these audiobooks, but I am so excited about them and hope you will be too!

(For a fuller picture of Bradlee, who died in 2014 at the age of 93, watch the HBO documentary about him, The Newspaperman, with much of the voice - over supplied by Bradlee's audiobook narration of his 1995 memoir, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures, which is itself a fun, bawdy read.)

Today in news that could only be nerdier if it were also directing a movie about Han Solo, Prince Nerd of Nerdopolis, Wil Wheaton, will be narrating the audiobook version of Armada, Ready Player One author Ernest Cline's new novel — which will be in stores next week.

Leonardo Sales is the COO of uBook and I asked about the journey from being a small startup to quickly becoming the largest audiobook provider in Latin America.

Also in BookPage: Review of the Freedom audiobook, interview with Franzen about The Corrections; review of The Discomfort Zone.

In this episode, Michal asks about the strategy behind creating audiobooks.

In 2011, she says, about 7,000 audiobooks were released; by 2015, releases numbered around 35,000, as publishers put out recordings of new books as well as audiobooks from their back catalogs.

She's also been doing great with the audiobooks through ACX, recently passing 40,000 in sales, so we asked her about what's led to her great success there.

For example, I'm now in the production process of turning «The Asset» into an audiobook, so I'm blogging about that so you can have an ACX audiobook case study.

They work directly with the drama departments at those Universities to organize events in which Audibles producers, joined by seasoned narrators, offer a presentation about the challenging and creative medium of audiobook narration, how to find work as an audiobook narrator, and performance tips.

My fiance was listening to the audiobook version of this book, and he kept coming home raving about it; I finally took his advice and picked up the book at my local bookstore, Spoonbill & Sugartown in Williamsburg.

It is significant that Hachette CEO did not mention the word about audiobooks whose sales in recent years have been growing incredibly all the time, and yet it is also a kind of electronic book?

It is hard to have a conversation about companies involved in the unlimited audiobook space and not talk about Amazon.

In the most interesting news about the launch, the Unlimited catalog — which features 600,000 ebooks and 2,000 audiobooks — automatically includes self - published works that authors have listed in Amazon's exclusive program, KDP SelecIn the most interesting news about the launch, the Unlimited catalog — which features 600,000 ebooks and 2,000 audiobooks — automatically includes self - published works that authors have listed in Amazon's exclusive program, KDP Selecin Amazon's exclusive program, KDP Select.

As a result, I have never heard a single author complaining about what audiobooks have done to his or her story — quite the opposite, in fact.

Hundreds of users have emailed me this year asking about self - publishing an audiobook when they live in Canada, India, Australia or the Netherlands.

In 2014 the company got bullish about audiobooks and they ironed out an agreement with Findaway to include over 30,000 titles.

The launch of audiobooks at Kobo in late summer of 2017 and some of the things they learned about the types of books people prefer reading in eBook format versus listening to

After all, in order for your audience to want to go out and tell the world about your amazing audiobook, they first have to be entertained and engaged by the narrator.

You just don't have bloggers dedicated to reviewing or blogging about audiobooks, so the promotional avenues are quite limited in comparison to promoting books and ebooks.

I can merely give you some numbers about the audiobook market in Germany as it is right now:

How about an Audiobook player in a small format?

Publishers told Maughan then that they've increased production of audiobooks steadily, Penguin Random House and HarperAudio executives talking about 10 percent more titles produced in 12 months; Macmillan's folks citing a 28 - percent rise.

Back in June, I posted an article about recording an audiobook for Without Magic.

I can merely give you some numbers about the audiobook market in Germany as it is right now: In 2013, the overall market share of audiobooks of the total book market was below -LSB-..in Germany as it is right now: In 2013, the overall market share of audiobooks of the total book market was below -LSB-..In 2013, the overall market share of audiobooks of the total book market was below -LSB-...]

You can give direction about things like pacing or attitude in the delivery, but if the voice itself kinda bugs you, your audiobook listeners are likely to feel the same.

Candace asks Edoardo Ballerini 5 questions about his life and shares 5 audiobooks he narrated in his characteristically silky smooth narrative voice.

Obviously, we've just scratched the surface about considerations in audiobook publishing!

Nhys, I think your comment about the speed at which the publishing world is changing is right on — there was a time when I thought that the non-fiction niche I'd carve out for myself in the indy publishing world would be around audiobook production and promotion, but it would be a full time job just to stay on top of that quite narrow area!

I've never thought a lot about how audiobooks are produced which I need to now that I have a release in December.

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The audiobook market share is about as big as the ebook market share in Germany (around 4 % in 2014), but most indie authors haven't entered the audiobook market yet.

Ten years later (in 2017), the industry saw about 79,000 new audiobooks produced in just that one year alone.

I'll answer the 10 most common questions I've heard about audiobook production in this post.

This is the last in my series of RMFW blogs about audiobooks, so let me leave you with these final thoughts from acclaimed Author and Narrator Neil Gaiman:

In fact, only about 1 in every 5,000 books is turned into an audiobooIn fact, only about 1 in every 5,000 books is turned into an audiobooin every 5,000 books is turned into an audiobook.

In his wonderful autobiography Up Till Now, William Shatner wasn't talking about audiobooks when he wrote these compelling words, yet his wisdom about taking risks certainly applies to this situation:

Of course, Riding the Bullet and Ur went on to be included in either print or audiobook, but nothing has been mentioned about Mile 81 just yet.

«As a publisher, Hachette Book Group strives to make authors» content as widely accessible as possible, and the NLS program is the perfect channel to reach fans of our books and audiobooks who otherwise may not have the opportunity to experience those works,» Anthony Goff, Hachette's VP of Audio and Large Print Publishing, said in an announcement about Hachette's support of the NLS.

«In 2015, the market for audiobooks was getting on for about 11 million units, 60 percent of which were downloads and over # 90 million (US$ 113 million) of spending.

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She spoke with Good e-Reader about how their audiobook unit performed in 2016.