The best
thing about audiobooks in Google Play is that you are not supposed to cast or stream audiobooks over Bluetooth to listen to the books on your Google Home.
The best
thing about audiobooks is that authors have flexibility when it comes to pricing their products, so they could give huge discounts to bring in customers, or price it high when demand increases.
The cool
thing about audiobooks, however, is that interest in this format is rapidly increasing, and the number of customers flooding the audiobook market is greatly outpacing the number of audiobooks being produced due to cost and difficulty in getting them done.
«That's one of the great
things about audiobooks — you can plug in and listen to whatever you like without revealing what you're listening to.
Not exact matches
The
thing I like
about their line of apps is the way they curate the
audiobook discovery experience.
The good
thing about the promotion is the
audiobooks aren't Kindle exclusive; they are offered through Amazon's partner, Audible.com, and you can listen to the
audiobooks with various Audible apps and devices, no Whispersync for Voice or Kindle required.
The launch of
audiobooks at Kobo in late summer of 2017 and some of the
things they learned
about the types of books people prefer reading in eBook format versus listening to
You can give direction
about things like pacing or attitude in the delivery, but if the voice itself kinda bugs you, your
audiobook listeners are likely to feel the same.
The
thing I really liked
about this app is that it shows you a preview window of the
audiobooks cover art.
The one
thing I really loved
about it when firing it up for the first time was to exclude all of the root Android file tables from being viewed when looking for new
audiobooks.
The best
thing about the new Overdrive system is that that the
audiobooks are yours to keep.
The only
thing we know
about the upcoming iBooks change is that it will be rebranded into «books» and it will have a dedicated
audiobook tab on the main navigation bar.
If you've been thinking
about an
audiobook as a way to reach more readers, here are three important
things to take into consideration.
The ins and outs of
audiobook production, how the various compensation schedules work, how there's more out there than just ACX, and
things to think
about BEFORE you dive into audio.
A few
things one reader learned
about how she experiences stories, both aurally and visually, and some of the ways listening to
audiobooks has helped her enjoy reading — in all formats.
For those who are curious
about such
things, this is
about how my
audiobook earnings broke down for the last year.
One
thing about the Kindle which has always seemed strange to us is the inability to listen to
audiobooks.
Some of the available
audiobook titles include The Drop by Dennis Lehane, How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran, Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay, The Hard
Thing About Hard
Things by Ben Horowitz, The Hunger Games Trilogy, and Divergent.
And I should say, the other
thing that's different, and you and I have talked
about audio books a lot but because I've already booked the studio for the
audiobook recording of «How to Market a Book» because my non-fiction audio sells so much better.
There's been a metric ton of electronic ink spilled in the past few months
about audiobooks, their merits, and whether listening to one is the same
thing as reading a book.
One
thing we love
about eBooks and digital
audiobooks is you can read judgement free.