Another feature of this app is to download MP3
audiobook titles from the public library (and I'd suppose OD retailers), it would be even better if it also allowed for WMA audiobooks which a lot of popular titles are.
I forget that you can often find free
audiobook titles from Audible.
You can explore
the audiobook titles from the list here.
EbscoHost eBooks and audiobooks EbscoHost offers thousands of high quality eBook and
audiobook titles from leading publishers including best selling, frontlist, and award - winning titles across a wide range of subject matter - including academic titles, popular fiction and more.
The company launched with 30,000
audiobooks titles from Blackstone, HarperCollins, Scholastic and Naxos.
Not exact matches
With over 150,000
titles to choose
from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player, Audible has a ton of
audiobooks for you to try no matter what genre you love to read.
Customers who purchase or already own the Kindle edition of one of the nearly 15,000 Whispersync for Voice - or Immersion Reading - ready
titles available at launch can add professional narration at a special limited time discount off the full
audiobook price, with the discounted price ranging
from $ 4.95 to $ 12.95.
OverDrive — All you need is a library card
from a participating public library (there are over 30,000 worldwide) and you can download
audiobooks of best selling
titles for free with the OverDrive app.
With Kindle Unlimited, you can read as much as you want, choosing
from over 1 million
titles and thousands of
audiobooks.
eStories — This company offers over 80,000
audiobook titles, mostly
from the top publishing companies.
They can mix their collections with a variety of access models —
from one copy / one user, metered access to simultaneous use and soon Cost - per - Circ for eBooks and
audiobooks — depending on the
title, expected demand, and budget.
Starting this March subscribers will be issued Monthly Read credits that will enable them to read three e-books and one
audiobook every month
from the full Scribd library, while still being able to read an unlimited number of books
from Scribd Selects, a rotating selection of
titles.
OverDrive, the leading supplier of eBooks and
audiobooks to libraries and schools, announced that it has expanded into 50 different countries and just added 300,000 digital
titles from more than 100 top publishers such as Faber & Faber, Simon & Schuster UK, Penguin Random House Spain, Planeta, Random House... [Read more...]
It has a new streamlined interface that has a built in
audiobook player, to listen to any
titles you borrow
from the library on the fly.
EBSCO offers more than one million high - quality e-book
titles and 100,000
audiobooks from more than 1,500 major academic publishers and University Presses
from around the world.
To get started, go to the Audible
Audiobooks Store to view
audiobook titles available for purchase
from Audible, read by your favorite celebrities, authors, and professional performers.
By preventing patrons
from listening to
audiobooks on their digital devices, it is possible that Penguin hopes to drive the users» interest to the print or ebook purchase of the
title.
Google
Audiobooks has received a ton of media attention since they launched a few months ago and apparently their service is not resonating with users, only 4.32 % of all
audiobook users said they bought at least a single
title from them.
«With unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of
titles, Kindle Unlimited offers by far the simplest and most cost - effective way to explore and discover eBooks and
audiobooks together, and you can even switch
from reading to listening without losing your place.
Libraries have access to OverDrive's catalog of nearly 2 million
titles in
audiobook, eBook, music and video formats
from more than 2,000 suppliers, spanning nearly every genre.
Audiobook availability has increased 15 %, with more than 5,500 new
titles available to school partners through OverDrive... In addition, the 2014 acquisition of Teacher's Notebook has given K - 12 partners access to teacher - created curriculum materials
from more than 500,000 educators.
In this project, consumers not only pick their price for select
titles from Recorded Books, the world's largest independent publisher and distributor of unabridged
audiobooks, they also get to select how much of the price goes to the author and how much benefits charity.
This prompted them to pivot
from unlimited listening plan to allowing their subscribers to access to a single
audiobook title every month and if they wanted to listen to more, they had to pay extra.
From these lists, we further select what we call the Top of the List: the single best
title in eight categories — adult fiction, adult nonfiction, youth fiction, youth nonfiction, youth picture book, reference source, video / DVD, and
audiobook.
He writes that releases of
audiobook editions of
titles «is almost always simultaneous with the publication of the printed book, which means that the
audiobook benefits
from publicity at the time of print publication, but it also reduces the time available for audio production.»
«With unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of
titles, Kindle Unlimited offers by far the simplest and most cost - effective way to explore and discover e-books and
audiobooks together, and you can even switch
from reading to listening without losing your place.
Enter to win ONE free
audiobook of your choosing, selected
from any Audible
titles narrated by, well, myself — Derrick McClain.
Data
from OverDrive's global library network will be made available to participating libraries and publishers, and includes information about eBook and digital
audiobook title circulation, book demand, and holds as well as web traffic and general demographics.
The Audio Publishers Association released the results
from their annual sales survey, conducted by the independent research firm Management Practice in the spring of 2015, which revealed that the
audiobook industry is continuing to expand in sales as well as the number of
titles being published in the format.
Our British customers have already downloaded 60,000
audiobooks from our platform during a short soft launch, and with thousands more
titles to be added this year, we expect the UK market to go
from strength to strength.»
Each standalone
title will be available as an ebook and
audiobook and every week
from May 2nd through May 18th and will cost $ 1.99 per episode or $ 8.99 for all 6 episodes.
The Bowker content is to comprise «metadata
from audiobooks, ebooks and print
titles, along with value - added content such as author biographies, awards, bestseller citations, covers, full - text reviews and more.»
People who love
audiobooks are relegated to paying for each one individually and the average
title ranges
from $ 12.99 to $ 29.99.
It was purchased by Amazon in 2008 for $ 300 million dollars and has an extensive catalog of 150,000
titles from leading
audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers and business... [Read more...]
The
audiobooks are sourced
from Overdrive and neither party has divulged the exact number of
titles are in their catalog.
Choose
from over one million
titles and thousands of
audiobooks.
Coupled with the format adaptations that let
audiobook readers enjoy their
titles from mobile devices, authors who produce their own content can actually stand to benefit quit well.
To find eBooks,
audiobooks, music, and video
titles from a library near you, visit http://search.overdrive.com.
This is why I'm waffling: «As a member of Kindle Unlimited, you may read Kindle books and listen to Audible
audiobooks from a designated list of
titles an unlimited number of times for so long as you are a member of the program.
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.
Even though Audible has countless public domain
titles on its site, I didn't realize that Amazon / Audible / ACX had created procedures to discourage people
from using public domain
titles to create
audiobooks.
More than 50,000 works
from Amazon subsidiary Audible
Audiobooks have joined the list of
titles available for purchase using wireless telecom connections built into the Kindle.
An award - winning, Los Angeles
audiobook narrator, Jeffrey Kafer has performed over 400
titles in all genres
from indie authors to bestsellers.
«Kindle Unlimited is a new service that allows you to read as much as you want, choosing
from over 700,000
titles and thousands of
audiobooks.
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?
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.
A deal between the Canadian startup and the US
audiobook distributor Findaway, «is bringing
audiobook bundling of selected
titles to BitLit
from Blackstone Audio, Gildan Media, Hachette Audio, HarperAudio, Naxos
Audiobooks and Scholastic Audio.»
Blackstone Audio is one of the nation's largest independent
audiobook publishers, offering over 10,000 unabridged
audiobook titles, plus more than 150 new releases each month, including
titles from Blackstone, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harlequin Audio, christianaudio and Penguin Random House.
The 2017 Amazing
Audiobooks list, comprised of 28 fiction
titles and 2 nonfiction
titles, features recordings that cover a wide range of interests for young adults
from historical fiction, to sci - fi, to realistic fiction.
With nearly one million digital
titles from OverDrive, patrons will have the opportunity to view all available formats for a given
title in a single search, including print, e-books, DVDs and
audiobooks.