The Bookseller reported in April that publishers are responding to the surge in
audiobook downloads by investing more in the sector, hiring new staff, upping the number of titles they publish and exploring audio - first opportunities.
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Sales of
audiobook downloads have continued on an upward trajectory from last year, increasing
by a remarkable 28.5 per cent in a year.
However, you can continue to access your
audiobooks by downloading them from Audible.com on a supported device.
Meanwhile the Publishers Association's annual statistics released earlier this year showed the value of
audiobook downloads to UK publishers increased
by 28 % in 2016, although it had the value at a much lower # 16m.
Now that
audiobooks are so easy to
download and listen to on our tablets and phones, sales are seeing the same kind of exponential growth enjoyed
by ebooks in recent years.
Luisterhuis, which is the main distributor of digital
audiobooks reported that in January 2016
downloads increased
by 24.7 % in February 13.1 % and in March they shot up 36.3 %.
Audiobooks.com's expansion into the UK follows another impressive year for the
audiobook industry, which saw explosive growth around the globe: the North American Audio Publishers Association reported an increase of 33.9 % in
audiobook units in 2016, while in the UK the Publisher's Association reports the total consumer audio
downloads increased
by 28 %.
In the first six months of 2016 —
Audiobook sales continue to boom, with
downloads increasing year - on - year
by 24 % to # 6m
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Start building your K — 12
audiobook collection
by selecting a grade level and
downloading a sample list.
Note: You can
download essential works
by Franz Kafka as free
audiobooks if you sign up for a 30 - Day Free Trial with Audible.
You can browse to your
audiobook by going to the start button, left click Computer, then left click on the «
Downloads» link under «Favorites» and the downloads folder w
Downloads» link under «Favorites» and the
downloads folder w
downloads folder will open.
And for Halloween night, you might also want to
download the free
audiobook version of Dracula
by Bram Stoker.
Customers can discover,
download, and listen to
audiobooks — read
by authors, celebrities, and world - class narrators.
Total consumer digital sales (including consumer ebooks,
downloads and
audiobooks) showed the most rapid growth, having increased
by 318 % since 2009 from # 4m to # 16m.
Founded in 2013
by Peter Hudson and Marius Muja, as BitLit Media Inc., Shelfie grew to offer more than 450,000 eBooks and
audiobooks that booklovers could purchase at a discount or
download free of charge.
Audiobook downloads are increasing rapidly in the UK and the US, with publishers responding to the opportunity
by investing more in the sector, hiring new staff, upping the number of titles they publish and exploring audio - first opportunities.
They also offer an introductory bonus, if your book is one of the first three
downloaded by a new subscriber then you get $ 25 per
download (or split if it's a royalty share agreement) ACX is investing in expanding the number of
audiobooks available and in encouraging people to tap their social networks to find more buyers for
audiobooks.
This collection gathers together the works
by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!Besides, it contains links to FREE
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With Halloween coming up, you might also want to
download the free
audiobook version of Dracula
by Bram Stoker.
Amazon lets you buy
audiobooks directly from Audible.com
by going to a dedicated Web site where you can
download and install Kindle - specific software for connecting to and buying from Audible.com.
Supported
by the newly updated 3M Cloud Library patron app — with 500,000
downloads and counting — the eAudiobook collection currently includes 40,000 titles powered
by Findaway World, with content from every major publisher in the
audiobook space.
Created to be user friendly, the screens will give step -
by - step instructions on how to access and
download digital books,
audiobooks, videos, and articles to their devices.
Spin: The
Audiobook Musical, Neil Fishman & Harvey Edelman; narrated
by Jim Dale and a full cast (HarperAudio and Blackstone Audio 978 -153851884-7, $ 19.99, CD, 1.5 hr., unabridged [also available as a digital
download]-RRB- January 2018.
In October, the American Association of Publishers reported that from January to October 2015,
audiobook downloads increased
by 38.1 per cent.
Customers can discover,
download, and listen to
audiobooks - read
by authors, celebrities, and world - class narrators.
When you include the 70 million
audiobooks Amazon.com sells annually (split 60/40 between digital
downloads and CD format), you get roughly a billion books of all formats that are being sold
by Amazon.com each year — a number that is very much in line with the reported 41 % share Amazon holds of all new - book sales of all formats in the U.S. and their 64 % share of all online print book sales.
Not so: This from Collection Development news from OverDrive 1/4/12: «Effective January 31, 2012, as instructed
by the publisher, BrillianceAudio will suspend the availability of all
download audiobook titles for library purchase across all vendors.
In a similar way,
audiobooks used to be constrained
by physical media, but can now be instantly sold and
downloaded anywhere.
It turns out that Audible, which is owned
by Amazon, doesn't verify credit cards and user information before it allows people to start
downloading audiobooks, so you can fill your iPhone with
audiobooks even if you sign up for an account using an obviously fake credit card.
The contest is free to enter and if you enter during the first week you can get a free
audiobook download of The Widow
by Fiona Barton.
Amazon's Alexa has thousands of skills available to
download, from the likes of Philips Hue to Just Eat, enabling the assistant to perform various tasks when asked
by the user, such as control smart home devices, order a pizza and read
audiobooks.