And in some cases it's even cheaper to get
the audiobook over the ebook.
Not exact matches
Ken recently penned a book, entitled «Your Guy Is Out There: Dating Tips For Women
Over 50,» to spread his knowledgeable insights via
audiobook and
ebook.
Our catalog includes
over 18,000 publishers with print books,
eBooks, online educational databases,
audiobooks, video resources, makerspace materials, and more.
Hoopla gives library patrons access to
over 300,000 movies, TV shows, full music albums,
audiobooks, and now they've just added
ebooks and comics to their selections as well.
Overdrive has announced that library patrons using their system have now borrowed
over 100 million
audiobooks and
eBooks in 2015.
Last year, the company signed an agreement with Softlink to bring
ebooks and
audiobooks to libraries and schools all
over Australia.
Authors, writers, publishers of
eBooks,
audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii - without author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover, price... - upload an
eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties per download - consolidated real - time sales reports - keeping full editorial and copyright control or B) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii and additionally on major
eBook retailers - we convert
eBooks to the ePub and mobi format for free - we distribute to the leading
eBook - shops all
over the world for free - we provide consolidated sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories and genres - an easy access to a huge variety of content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate and comment on
eBooks
Ingram Library Services, a leading provider of comprehensive services to public libraries, including access to
over 16.5 M titles, has teamed up with ODILO, an internationally recognized leader and provider of technology and digital content for US libraries and schools, to expand the collections of multilingual
eBooks and
audiobooks for library patrons.
«Tablets will likely continue to take
over, as they can access a wider variety of content, from
ebooks to streaming video, to music, to
audiobooks, to the Internet in general,» the report notes.
Over 300,000
ebooks are available and 25 GB of cloud storage is given to each owner to store
audiobooks and other media.
«In addition to offering
over 600,000
eBooks, Kindle Unlimited is also by far the most cost - effective way to enjoy
audiobooks and
eBooks together.
Based on activities of top circulating public libraries,
eBook,
audiobook and digital magazine checkouts are on track to grow 30 - 40 percent for 2016
over the record levels achieved for 2015.
Capti Narrator now makes
over 50,000 free Project Gutenberg
eBooks universally accessible to anyone who needs or wants to listen to
audiobooks instead of reading
eBooks from the screen.
For example, I featured the
eBook &
audiobook versions of Orwell's 1984 two weeks ago
over the weekend.
Over the course of 2017 there were 155 million
ebook loans, which was an increase of 11 % from 2016 and there was 68 million
audiobook loans.
They have an extensive catalog of
over 800,000
ebooks and 73,000
audiobooks for branches in the United States.
Amazon Kindle Unlimited has a library of
over one million
audiobooks and
ebooks.
eBook circulation has grown 9 %, and the popularity of
audiobooks keeps accelerating with nearly 23 % growth in circulation year
over year through the first half of 2017.
She went on to say «while
eBooks are experiencing good solid double digit growth in libraries and schools, growth in
audiobook lending is outpacing
eBook lending with a 28 % growth rate year
over year.
OverDrive libraries add to their collections from a catalog of
over 2 million
eBooks,
audiobooks, and videos.
Readers who are 55 + tend to favour print books
over ebooks and do much less listening of
audiobooks.
It turns out that most library patrons prefer to check out physical books (75 % had in the past 12 months)
over ebooks (25 % had checked out an
ebook), and physical
audiobooks (80 % had not checked one out)
over digital (95 % hadn't).
The number who had listened to an
audiobook (26 %) was up slightly
over 2016, while the number of people who had read an
ebook (48 %) has been down slightly, year
over year.
More than one million new users signed on to access free
eBooks,
audiobooks, and more from â $ ˜Virtual Branch» websites last year, resulting in a 200 percent increase in
eBook checkouts and a 52 percent increase in
audiobook checkouts
over 2009.
The company is becoming more focused on mobile devices since in the last quarter the number of users checking out
audiobooks and
ebooks has increased by
over 33 %.
Notable events have included its kick - off in New York City's Central Park and the Library of Congress's National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Patrons who visit the traveling
ebook library can sample content from OverDrive's catalog of
over one million titles, as well as streaming audio and video,
audiobook downloads, and more.
Library readers borrowed more than 165 million
eBooks,
audiobooks and streaming video from their library's OverDrive - powered collection, an increase of 20 percent
over 2014.
I've sold
over 500,000 books in 74 countries in print,
ebook and
audiobook formats.
Over the past five years many of us have come to understand Amazon's Kindle and now the Kindle Fire as a seamless, friction - free, almost instantaneous content delivery system for a growing catalog of entertainment and / or educational content that began with
ebooks and now includes newspapers and magazines, blogs,
audiobooks, music, movies, television programming, games and productivity apps, and other web content.
Rakuten OverDrive, the leading digital reading platform available to millions of readers from
over 40,000 libraries and schools worldwide, reported record - breaking downloads of
eBooks and
audiobooks in 2017.
Libraries continued to reach new audiences with their OverDrive platform, as juvenile and young adult
eBooks and
audiobooks — including the industry's first digital Read - Alongs (synchronized
eBook with audio narration audio)-- enjoyed record - setting checkouts (+9 percent
over 2016).
The
audiobook or
eBook will automatically be removed from your device after the lending period is
over.
OverDrive is the leading platform for
ebook and
audiobook lending to public and school libraries, with
over 30,000 supported libraries worldwide.
Some
audiobooks sell for
over $ 50 and yet the
ebook is only like $ 10.
This is an increase of 24 percent
over 2014 with a notable surge in
audiobooks usage, which achieved a faster growth rate than
eBook library borrowing.
She added that the impressive sales numbers for the first six books of The Godling Chronicles series in both
audiobook and
ebook formats, and their sustained sales
over the past four years, convinced Audible that even a six - figure advance was not much of a risk.
Did you know that every single time you buy an
eBook or
audiobook from Kobo, you're earning points which you can redeem for rewards from a catalogue of
over 1.5 million titles?
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.
We need to appeal, not to Amazon, which is simply doing its capitalistic job, but to publishers, authors, libraries, and readers, all of whom will ultimately be the victims of Amazonian hegemony
over the print,
eBook, and
audiobook worlds.
In my world, authors sell books globally, in
ebook, print and
audiobook format, they are paid monthly and they have creative freedom and control
over timing — all without a publisher.
My own guess, based on watching my sales profile
over the years, is that print,
eBook and
audiobook do not inherently cannibalize each others» sales — it seems to me that for each there is a class of reader that is «native» to each — that is, there is a group of readers who strongly prefers print
over eBook or audio, another group who prefers
eBook strongly to the other formats, and a third group (correlated, I imagine, with people who have long commutes) who strongly prefer
audiobook.
The page advertises «
over 600,000»
ebook and
audiobook titles including the Hunger Games series and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
«In addition to offering
over 600,000
ebooks, Kindle Unlimited is also by far the most cost - effective way to enjoy
audiobooks and
ebooks together.»
The
audiobooks are available through Scribd's monthly service plan that costs $ 8.99 per month, along with
over 400,000
ebook titles.
Amazon (s AMZN) is testing an
ebook and
audiobook subscription service called «Kindle Unlimited» that offers «unlimited access to
over 600,000 titles and thousands of
audiobooks on any device for just $ 9.99 a month.»
«Scribd says it has
over 500,000 subscribers paying $ 8.99 / month for
ebooks,
audiobooks, and now news.»
Other highlights from the report include a significant increase in the number of publishers producing digital
audiobooks, which rose by 11 %
over 2015, and a 20 % jump in the number of firms utilizing the agency pricing model for their
ebooks.
I've known for a long time that
Audiobooks would be a game runner alongside of
ebooks because I use Audio
over ebooks for my reading needs.
For a monthly fee of $ 9.99, Kindle Unlimited gives unlimited access to
over 1.8 million Kindle
ebooks, but also Audible
audiobook companions, as well as digital versions of popular magazines and newspapers.
Let's also just emphasize again that this is
over 36,000
ebooks and
over US$ 86,000 that are NOT counted in any official publishing reports, as I don't use ISBNs on
ebooks or
audiobooks and I use free Createspace ISBNs for print.