Titles available to
buy as audiobooks include My Brother is a Superhero by David Solomons, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the British Book Industry Awards Children's Book of the Year prize, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners by Pamela Butchart, winner of the Blue Peter Book Award, and The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Wiliams, the first title in a new series of Nosy Crow classics.
There's a nice digital twist on this: Through the service A Story Before Bed, you can
buy this as an audiobook, read by either Stan Lee or... you!
Interestingly, that book isn't available as an e-book on Amazon's Kindle — though you can
buy it as an audiobook.
Not exact matches
You will receive a credit for one free
audiobook download per month, plus a 30 % discount on any additional books you would like to
buy,
as well
as access to weekly deals and discounts.
More and more,
as the format grows beyond the niche it seemed to occupy when I first started
buying audiobooks in 2004, people are trying different things to make the
audiobook not just an alternate delivery mechanism for the text for reasons of either convenience or necessity, but a separate, satisfying piece of creative work with its own reasons to exist.
I
buy audiobooks as a ebook companion usually when a book is so huge it will be hard to read by reading alone such
as Cryptonomicon or the Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke.
As you know, I narrate a book or two almost every week and I've never
bought or listened to a free
audiobook once in my life!
If you
buy the
audiobook through audible and mail me proof that this is one of the first three sales you made on audible, I will send you the eBook plus one of my novels
as an eBook for free (the title is your choice).
Are you
buying more ebooks or
audiobooks and, if so, are you
buying less hardcovers and paperbacks
as a result?
You can
buy a bundled eBook and
audiobook and have the text highlight
as you are reading.
You can also
buy the
audiobook and have the text highlighted
as it plays, while the e-book is open.
The CEO of BITLIT Peter Hudson sees adding
audiobooks as «yet another way to further our mission of promoting reading freedom across formats — allowing readers to access the stories they've
bought whenever and however they choose.»
There was also lots of experimentation, such
as the BITLIT model of e - book /
audiobook bundling and car manufactures including free audio content when you
bought a new ride.
2014 was also the year of the
audiobook has many libraries started to
buy into this platform and new entrants such
as Barnes and Noble are drawing in casual customers.
If somebody
buys your e-book and they have your
audiobook as well, what will happen is they can start reading the book on their phone, on their Kindle, whatever.
Her beautiful English accent is a pleasure to listen to - I will definitely
buy more of her
audiobooks on being an author
as well
as returning to this one to review details
as I become ready for them.
Symtio provides booksellers with an opportunity to sell to loyal customers who are looking to
buy e-books and MP3 downloads for
audiobooks, or to purchase e-books
as gifts.
However,
as I've said on this blog before, it's crazy to purchase
audiobooks via the iTunes Store rather than directly from Audible.com
as the direct purchase allows re-downloads of any books you
buy — and the iTunes Store doesn't.
Users who
buy books
as a text / audio bundle will be able to use the feature, which uses reading speed to calculate where you left off and switches to that spot in the
audiobook title.
Amazon
bought Audible in 2008 and makes it super-easy to publish and sell your books
as an
audiobook.
Like usual the ebook is free but once you «
buy» it the
audiobook companion automatically becomes free
as well.
Podcasts may indeed be a gateway to the
audiobook format, given that the graphs above show that podcast consumers
buy more than twice
as many
audiobooks (3.8 %)
as general book consumers (1.3 %).
Buy it today from Atavist or your favorite eBook Retailer Atavist (includes
audiobook read by Greta Gerwig) Amazon • iBookstore • Barnes & Noble • Kobo • Google Play Books Available
as an
audiobook at Audible and iTunes
This seems less applicable to
audiobook library lending, however: Most digital
audiobooks are significantly more expensive than e-books, so users who can't get them from libraries are not
as likely to
buy them.
Key findings:
Buying habits of
Audiobook shoppers prove that British accents are favoured by American listeners according to an
Audiobooks.com study Americans are almost three times
as likely to
buy a book read by a British narrator, and rate British voices higher on average
Audiobooks.com, the second largest provider of
audiobooks in North America, launches...
Vagabonding is a valuable resource that makes it one of the best travel books you can
buy, it can be found
as an
audiobook on Audible.
As for
audiobooks, you'll need an Audible account, but once you sign up and
buy some
audiobooks, you can tell Alexa something like «Play the
audiobook [title]» and she'll begin to play it.