While the number
of audio titles produced each year continues to grow, the audiobook industry is not a by - the - numbers kind of operation.
They sell
audio titles on an individual basis, but you can also pay a monthly subscription fee and save some money.
The company always has a promotion where if you are register for a new account you can download a few
audio titles for free.
You will be able to purchase one
audio title at a discount and get another one completely for free.
It primarily promotes new and forthcoming adult hardcover, trade and mass - market paperback, and spoken -
word audio titles.
Those titles are still available for free, and lots of folks found some
good audio titles to download, so I wanted to put together another roundup of 10 additional free audiobooks.
Libraries will be able to buy older
audio titles from Ken Follett, Clive Cussler, Anita Blake, Maya Banks, Roald Dahl, W.E.B. Griffin, Nick Hornby, Stephen King, Jen Lancaster, and Lee Child.
On ebooks and audio Penguin began limiting its ebooks and
digital audio titles available for library lending in November 2011.
Recently Amazon announced that you can
purchase audio titles directly within their Kindle for Android app and has a new audio player in Kindle for iOS.
Its catalog currently offers more than 2,200
spoken audio titles, and continues to expand with the addition of over 250 new titles per year.
In an interesting twist to how viable and successful publishing typically function, Ferris» company will only
release audio titles that he himself has read and enjoyed, beginning with a title that he declared to be «life changing,» Vagabonding by Rolf Potts.
Today, Audible has announced that they are adding audiobooks into GoodReads and people can listen to samples and
add audio titles into their GoodReads shelf.
Synchronized eBook and
audio titles provide access to the professionally recorded voice of the author or narrator as if the eBook and audiobook were published together.
There are a number of
notable audio titles at launch, including the Hunger Games, Ocean at the end of the Lane, The Spy who loved me, Brave New World and tons of other great content.
Publishers are responding to that growth by releasing
more audio titles than ever before, with audiobook new releases reaching 200 % growth over the year before.
Penguin Random House's President and COO Madeline McIntosh stated «Our frontlist and
backlist audio titles will continue to be sold by the respective Penguin and Random House retail sales reps who currently sell them.
Kobo Audiobooks are now available in France and customers can now subscribe for $ 9.99 per month and get access to a
single audio title.
Scribd's 30,000
audio titles far exceeds Amazon's offering, however, which is currently less than one third of that for US customers, even less for UK subscribers.
The new e-commerce programme will allow authors to earn an additional 10 % net royalty on print, e-book and
physical audio titles sold through the HarperCollins platform.
Actually, a commenter on the blog post also points out some interesting
legacy audio titles for consoles, noting: «Kenji Eno / Warp had some sound only games.
I've created a newsletter that lists ebook and
audio titles in the KU program.
In 2014 the Overdrive catalog featured 60,000
audio titles from over 100 different publishes.
Audible, for example, charges a monthly subscription of # 7.99 for access to one
new audio title a month.
Beginning in the fall of this year, libraries using Axis 360 will have access to both ePub and spoken
word audio titles, in addition to patron reviews and star ratings.
On ebooks and audio Random House's commitment to the ebook library market has been consistent, with its complete frontlist and backlist available for library lending as well as
digital audio titles.
Some of the more notable making
of audio titles are about Nirvana's «In Utero,» Michael Jackson's «Dangerous» and Radiohead's «Kid A.»
Today's news may very well mean that libraries would also not be allowed to repurchase existing ebook and
audio titles for replacement.
Over 50,000
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Over 50,000
audio titles are available with the launch of this new service.
«Libraries that work with Ingram have access to the broadest and most comprehensive selection of content with immediate access to more than 11 million print, digital, and
audio titles.
They would use the credits to rack up a huge library of
audio titles or simply sell the credits on EBAY.
If you want to buy
an audio title you get a 33 % discount by being a member.
They have partnered with Book Track, to add sound effects into four
audio titles to provide a more immersive experience.
Kashif Zafar, Vice President of US Digital Content at NOOK Media told Good e-Reader exclusively that his company is putting a company wide focus on
audio titles and this is a huge priority for them.
Companies like Audible have even increased the speed, due to user demand and can listen to
an audio title at 3x the normal speed.
Findaway is the primary distributor of
audio titles and they power the collection of Baker & Taylor, Scribd, TuneIn Radio and hundreds of others.