Not exact matches
Mysteries, thrillers, and suspense led the
audiobook genre designations among
surveyed listeners, with history, biography, memoir, and popular fiction following;
The 2017
survey asked about voice - enabled wireless speakers (such as Amazon Echo or Google Home) for the first time, with 19 % of all
listeners reporting using them to listen to an
audiobook in the last year.
The
survey also showed that 84 % of
audiobook listeners also read a print book in the past year, and 56 % also read an e-book.
The Pew Research Center recently reported an increase in
audiobook listeners in 2016, with 14 % of
survey respondents saying that they listened to books.
In newly released
survey results, the Audio Publishers Association sees 56 percent of frequent
audiobook listeners identifying as male, 44 percent female.