Sentences with phrase «as audiobook listeners»

Not exact matches

In fact, we listeners have our own celebrity narrators, actors who are better known — and whose voices are certainly more recognizable — as audiobook narrators.

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.

(The answer for me turned out to be «no» — I'm a decent out - loud reader, but these days, audiobook listeners want more dramatization than that, as evidenced by the fact that audiobook credits now reference not «narrated by,» but rather «performed by.»)

Playaways, a concept whose technology seems backwards at first glance, is actually a brilliant tool for putting audiobooks in front of as many listeners as possible, specifically in school, library, and even deployed military outposts.

June is Audiobook Month and the publishing industry wants to garner as many listeners and potential listeners through as many channels as possible.

«We are proud to deepen our long - standing partnership with HarperCollins as they expand the market to directly serve audiobook listeners worldwide with their new offering.»

As we continue to explore the world of audiobooks, we bring you our newest Bookreporter.com feature, «Sounding Off on Audio,» where we interview listeners about their love of audiobooks.

The 2017 survey asked about voice - enabled wireless speakers (such as Amazon Echo or Google Home) for the first time, with 19 % of all listeners reporting using them to listen to an audiobook in the last year.

«We are delighted with Inspector Hobbes and the Blood being chosen as a finalist in ABR Audiobook Listener Awards 2018, and especially excited for Tim who did a magnificent job.

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.

I've been thinking about creating my own audiobook version via podcast, because Audible appears like too much trouble, and I find Amazon's prices rather extreme as a listener, especially when there are Library services that provide books for free.

Loyal listeners appreciate audiobook narration as an art form.

You can easily see the number and type of audiobooks they have recorded, as well as listener ratings and comments about their performances.

As we wind down 2016, we want to give back to you, our listeners, who help make our job so rewarding, and who travel with us on each audiobook journey.

Audible.com, the largest retailer of audiobooks, launched ACX in 2011 as the first matchmaker site where professionals connect to create more audiobooks for Audible's growing number of listeners.

As a bonus, because he was the author Vaynerchuck had the ability to go off - script and direct comments straight at the listener, which gives the audiobook a uniquely personal touch.

Audible listeners choose audiobooks for the performance of the material, as well as the story.

D2D's partnership with Findaway Voices aims to eliminate as many barriers between authors and audiobook listeners as possible.

Many indies have seen a similar drop in audiobook sales as the subscription model takes hold and listeners can get audiobooks for cheap if they own the ebook.»

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.

In newly released survey results, the Audio Publishers Association sees 56 percent of frequent audiobook listeners identifying as male, 44 percent female.

Twenty - five years after starting as a print newsletter, today AudioFile is a multi-platform resource to audiobooks for consumer listeners, professional library selectors, and the audiobook industry.

Unlike printed words on paper or screens which require the reader's undivided attention, audiobooks can be enjoyed while the listener performs other tasks, such as driving their car, cooking a meal or taking a walk.

As digital audiobooks change how readers consume content, there is an increasing number of ways for listeners to access this content, including subscription, rental, purchase, and borrowing from the library.

If you select Kobo as a distribution partner, your audiobook will be available for sale on the Kobo Audiobooks store, and listeners can enjoy your audiobook in the great Kobo Books app (available on iOS and Android).

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.