In the past, people with vision challenges have had to
rely on audiobooks or Siri to translate text on smartphones and tablets, but now blind people are empowered to read braille from a smart device.
Let me first explain that I'm visually impaired and so I tend to
rely on audiobooks more than your average person.
Not exact matches
One of the downsides is that B&T
relies on many 3rd party companies such as Blio, Acoustic to deliver
audiobooks and music.
I
rely on my 6 content editors, my 2 copy editors, my 2
audiobook producers, my illustrator, and my cover artist.
Audiobooks rely on sound rather than sight, so sometimes narrators will add a word or change a clause slightly because it «flows» better when spoken.
Setting up an
audiobook for success
relies primarily
on you.
If you can't get enough of
audiobooks and have been
relying on your smartphone or tablet, there is yet another viable option.
Microsoft will implement a 95 % revenue share for Windows 10 Apps 10 May 2018 (Good Ereader) Young startups and independent developers will have a financial incentive to make a Windows 10 version of their
audiobook or ebook app, instead of just
relying on the Apple App Store or Google Play.
With the royalty share, a producer is spending a ton of time reading / recording / producing your work, and then they have to
rely on you (mostly) to sell the
audiobook.
In the good old days, before self - publishing was seen as a viable option, authors had to
rely on big publishing houses to market their books and
audiobooks as well as through word of mouth.
Those who are
audiobook consumers are particularly likely to
rely on the library for their recent books: 24 % of those who listened to an
audiobook in the past year had borrowed a book from the library, compared with 12 % of those who didn't consume
audiobooks.
Instead of clinging to the nearly - ancient technology, the next iPhone could begin paving the road to a world where we're finally past the point of
relying on cords to listen to our
audiobooks, podcasts, or playlists altogether.
And since Amazon owns Audible, you can
rely on your Echo to play
audiobooks, too.