You will be able to
purchase audio editions from major publishers such as Hachette, Macmillan, and Penguin Random House.
They managed to get their collection of over 70,000 titles in over 2,000 locations and bookstores could get a commision if their patrons
purchased the audio edition of their favorite titles.
Whenever
you purchase an audio edition on iTunes or iBooks, the content basically is just coming from Audible.
It was not too long ago that you had to
purchase an audio edition on CD and Cassette.
Not exact matches
You can
purchase an eBook and the corresponding audiobook and actually read the book and play the
audio edition at the same time.
Audible has announced that they have
purchased 5,000
audio editions from the now defunct company.
We've added the option to seamlessly listen and read your favorite titles by making our Audible
audio edition available with your Kindle eBook
purchases on Amazon and inside the devices you read with.
The average eBook for a library to
purchase is around $ 9.99, while an
audio edition costs $ 29.99.
So if a title has a print, eBook, and
audio edition, three ISBN numbers would be
purchased and assigned, one for each format.
So, I would not say it is that publishers are wedded to the print format (most publishers now provide simultaneous e-books for
purchase with print /
audio editions, some eg Corvus in the UK, are making the e-
editions available before the print is published).
Here's a radical idea: Sell the all - in - one
edition where my print
purchase also includes the ebook and
audio formats.
Since we're now up to, oh, about a dozen buy links, I think you'd probably have to break them down the
purchase options into print, ebook and
audio editions and then from there readers can click through to the retailer of their choice.
The move allows users to get a discount if they
purchase both the e-book and
audio edition, but on top of that it will allow users to flip between the two based on where they left off.