The move is understood to be an attempt to take on Amazon which owns popular
audiobook service Audible.
The basic Kindle, for which support for
audiobooks service Audible is coming in the next few months, is currently being sold at a discounted price of $ 49.99, which is $ 30 off of the regular price of $ 79.99.
Not exact matches
You can download
audiobooks for free through your local library, or you can subscribe to a
service such as
Audible, which offers a free 30 - day trial period for new subscribers.
And unlike Amazon's
service Audible, which provides
audiobooks for a monthly fee, the book reading
service from Amazon Echo is free of charge.
I find it distributing that
audiobooks are so accessible now, either via dedicated
services such as
Audible or your local library.
Now I'd like to invite you to explore a beta version of a new benefit of
Audible membership — an unlimited short - form listening
service we believe will become as popular and addictive as
Audible's
audiobook service — and I hope you'll let us know what you think of this work in progress.
There are dozens of ways to produce an
audiobook from your work, with
services such as
Audible Content Exchange (ACX) and ListenUp offering an assist.
We have Netflix for movies and TV,
Audible for
audiobooks, and a host of
services for music, the most successful of which seems to be Spotify.
Many people also tend to listen to
audiobooks on their phone from
Audible or other
services.
Amazon.co.uk today introduced Kindle Unlimited — a new subscription
service which allows customers to freely read as much as they want from over 650,000 Kindle books and listen as much as they want to thousands of
Audible audiobooks, all for only # 7.99 a month.
Audiobook narration is becoming a very in - demand thing in the industry and nowhere is this more evident than in one of the only self - publishing
services that exists, the
Audible Creation Exchange.
ACX is the
Audiobook Creation Exchange, and is a platform and
service built by
Audible, Inc. (which is in turn owned by Amazon).
With the Canadian company Rakuten Kobo finally launching their
audiobooks service worldwide, appearing as a long awaited competitor for Amazon's
Audible,
audiobooks became a hot topic once again, living their revival.
mp3s, digital players, and
audiobook subscription
services like
Audible has caused an uptick in
audiobooks, and, predictably, Amazon has heard that call.
The Top 20 Most Sold list includes books sold and pre-ordered from Amazon,
Audible, and Amazon Books, and it also includes books and
audiobooks borrowed from Amazon's subscription
services like Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading.
There has been a rise in the number of competing
audiobook services such as Amazon,
Audible and Scribd.
The
Audible Creation Exchange is a
service that allows authors to have
audiobooks generated from their novels.
NEWARK, N.J. — November 1, 2017 —
Audible Inc., the world's largest seller and producer of downloadable
audiobooks and other spoken - word entertainment, today announced the release of the
Audible Romance package, an all - inclusive offering featuring unlimited access to over ten thousand romance
audiobooks, bestsellers, and
Audible Originals for $ 6.95 a month as an add - on to
Audible membership, and $ 14.95 a month as a standalone
service.
Amazon's subsidiary, US
audiobook producer and distributor
Audible, will run the
service.
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.
The new features show that Google is serious about
audiobooks — and could contribute to a growing threat against
services like
Audible.
At
Audible.com, we have had great success working directly with authors to increase awareness of their
audiobooks, and
Audible Author
Services will help us build on these accomplishments.
The program only applies to authors who already have titles available as
audiobooks through
Audible or its channels, but authors who do not already have an
audiobook for sale can work through
Audible's Author
Services division to develop an
audiobook.
Audible is probably the definitive
service for purchasing
audiobooks.
Audible has officially cancelled its Author
Services program that gave
audiobook authors an extra $ 1.00 for every edition sold on
Audible.com,
Audible.co.uk, and iTunes.
Matador's
audiobooks will initially be distributed via
Audible and full details of the
service can be found on the Troubador website.
All Amazon Prime members now have unlimited free access to
Audible Channels, a new short - form
audiobook service that
Audible introduced earlier this year.
Services like
Audible offer
audiobooks, but books that never made the leap to audio aren't part of the
audiobook retailer catalogs.
Audible is a subscription
audiobook service; you pay a monthly fee and are issued one or credits per month entitling you to a free
audiobook download.
Publishers that are contributing
audiobooks to the Scribd
service include HarperCollins, Scholastic, and Blackstone Audio, one of the largest
audiobook publishers in the U.S. and a major rival to
Audible, an Amazon subsidiary.
If
Audible does not commence selling the
Audiobook within 3 months after its receipt of your written notice, (a) this Agreement will automatically terminate and all rights in the Book and the
Audiobook granted to
Audible in this Agreement will revert to you and (b) if you agreed to the royalty share payment option with the Producer for production of the
Audiobook,
Audible will pay the Producer a termination fee of $ 100 times the actual number of finished hours (in 10 minute increments) in the deal confirmation page; up to a maximum of $ 2,500 as full payment for the Producer's
services in creating the
Audiobook.
Amazon has now decided to bring
audiobook playback with
audible to old Kindle devices as well, thus allowing old Kindle users to access this amazing
service.
Home → Amazon → Will It Be Possible For Old Kindle Models To Access
Audiobook Playback &
Audible Services?
What helped me take the
audiobook idea seriously was a service called Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX.com)-- a service from Audible and its parent, Amazon — that connects authors, narrators, and
audiobook idea seriously was a
service called
Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX.com)-- a service from Audible and its parent, Amazon — that connects authors, narrators, and
Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX.com)-- a
service from
Audible and its parent, Amazon — that connects authors, narrators, and studios.
Audible offers production
services through its
Audiobook Creation Exchange program, but to receive a 40 per cent royalty rate publishers must hand over exclusive distribution rights to ACX (compared to 25 per cent if rights are retained.)
Once the domain of road - trip entertainment,
audiobooks have come into their own, thanks in part to the ubiquitous smartphone, the increasing popularity of podcasts, celebrity narrators, and Netflix - style subscription
services like
Audible.
Amazon is adding free
audiobooks and a digital audio
service called
Audible Channels to the ever - growing list of perks for members of its Prime loyalty program.
Named Kindle Unlimited, the
service operates as a form of «Netflix for e-books,» providing all - you - can - eat access to over 600,000 Kindle books and thousands of
Audible audiobooks via Kindle devices or the Kindle apps on smartphones and tablets for $ 9.99 per month.
And
Audible dominates the digital
audiobook market because, compared to other
services, or outright purchases, those monthly rates are a bargain.
Sonos has announced that
Audible, the
audiobook service from Amazon, is now back up and running on Sonos speakers after being removed from the multi-room streaming system a couple of years ago.
Barry has gone on to publish seven books through KDP, and he turned to ACX — a
service created by Amazon subsidiary
Audible — to hire the voice actor who brought A Strange and Bitter Fruit to a new audience as an
audiobook.
The subscription
service, billed as a literary equivalent to Netflix and Spotify, allows users unlimited access (as the name implies) to over 650,000 Kindle books and an extensive library of
Audible audiobooks for # 7.99 a month (at current exchange rates nearly # 2 more, incidentally, than the $ 9.99 a month charged by the American
service, which launched earlier this summer).
Answers questions, reads the news, reports traffic and weather, reads
audiobooks from
Audible, gives info on local businesses, provides sports scores and schedules, controls Amazon Video on Fire TV, and more using the Alexa Voice
Service
The
service will offer about 2,000
audiobooks from
Audible with Whispersync for Voice, which lets users switch between reading and listening to books.
The big new feature for the Oasis is the integration of Amazon's
Audible audiobook service, the first time for a Kindle device, which allows readers to seamlessly switch between
audiobooks and ebooks, maintaining their position in the story if they own both formats of a particular book using the Whispersync for Voice
service.
To illustrate, let's use an example: Let's say you were to list your
audiobook for sale on a
service like
Audible or iTunes.
Recipients eligible for a free trial of the
Audible service may use any credits provided with their free trial to redeem their
audiobook recommendation.
Since Amazon owns
Audible, it pairs the
audiobook service with ebook content: You can have your book read to you while you read it on the screen.
However, the online retail giant has now officially announced the
service, which gives users access to over 600,000 Kindle books and thousands of
Audible audiobooks for $ 9.99 a month.
For many, the
Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), a
service of
Audible, is ideal.