Apple Books has launched digital narration for English language audiobooks, beginning with select fiction and romance titles, focused on self-published authors and small publishers. The new initiative produces AI-narrated audiobooks out of ebooks in the Apple Books library. Authors/publishers retain audio rights and can still produce and distribute other audio versions of the book as well. Prospective titles must be nominated and will be evaluated based on “file quality, content compatibility (no complex formatting elements, and limited foreign language words and phrases), and editorial review.” If titles are not immediately approved, they will remain eligible for future approval. Release date, […]