There was a jump of 31 % in
audiobook sales between 2015 and 2016 and an increase in podcast listenership of 23 %.
Not exact matches
The German Federal Cartel Office, which handles antitrust investigations, is looking into the agreement
between Amazon and Apple by which the latter purchases
audiobooks from Amazon - owned Audible for
sale in iTunes.
Michael Kozlowski of Good e-Reader and Jeremy Greenfield of Digital Book World discuss the recent IDPF and Book Expo America conference, the ongoing battle
between Amazon and Hachette, Barnes and Noble suspending
audiobook sales and the store within a store concept for bookselling.
We believe that
between sales of the Kindle eBook, print book,
AudioBook as well as
sales of other books in the series, we will get a decent return on our investment (ROI).
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.