How do you have a book signing with audio books?
Can we make the supply chain more efficient and give people incentive to change and have audio books model from writer to reader? Can we change the entire process, which for the last 25 years or more...
View ArticleAuthors Level the Playing Field in a Changing the AudioBooks industry?
With the advent of the Kindle and other digital alternatives to audiobooks, the publishing industry is having its share of struggles. Major bookstores are closing locations, while publishers are...
View ArticleFree audio books jump off the page with digital enhancements
When The Search for WondLa, the start of a fantasy trilogy for kids starring a 12-year-old girl raised by a robot on an alien planet, is published today in free audio books format, it will include...
View ArticleU.S. Kindle Store Now Has Over 700,000 audiobooks and Books
This morning, Amazon released a small update to its Android app,This morning, Amazon released a small update to its Android app, including free audiobooks and a Wikipedia dictionary. Hidden in the...
View ArticleAre free Audio Books and ebooks good for books?
At present only 8% of the reading public in the US use free audio books of some sort, but among the 2,775 US adults in the survey 12% said they were thinking of getting one in the next 12 months....
View ArticleFree Audio Books Lovers Flock To National Mall For Festival
On Saturday September 25th, free audio books lovers from far and wide will once again gather on the National Mall for Washington D.C’s 10th annual National Book Festival. This year, the festival is...
View ArticleHarperCollins Announces New Conservative free audiobooks
The largest publishing houses in the country have discovered that free audiobooks with a conservative political slant mean big money and sales. Simon & Schuster (CBS) can depend on its Threshold...
View ArticleDOD oversees destruction of classified war audio books
The Defense Department says it has overseen the destruction of 9,500 audio books of a former Army intelligence officer’s war memoir that the Pentagon contends threatened national security. Pentagon...
View ArticleFree audiobooks business model hurting Authors
Much as cheap digital-music downloads have meant that fewer bands can earn a living from record-company deals, fewer literary authors will be able to support themselves as e-books win acceptance,...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling Moves on to Adult Fiction
After selling an estimated 450 million “Harry Potter” books, J.K. Rowling is moving on to adult fiction. Her new book will be called “The Casual Vacancy.” Ms. Rowling’s new publisher, Little, Brown...
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