Audible will release taped conversations from Michelle Obama’s THE LIGHT WE CARRY tour as an eight-episode podcast. Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast will air weekly, starting on March 7, and available exclusively on Audible for two weeks before opening up to other streaming platforms. This marks the first release after the Obamas’ Higher Ground productions […]
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Audio: Google Play Books Partners With Bookwire on AI-Narrated Audiobooks
Google Play Books has partnered with digital book company Bookwire on AI-created audiobooks in English, Spanish, German, French and Brazilian Portuguese books. Bookwire’s audiobook service WAY (We Audiobook You) allows Google Play Books customers to “create auto-narrated audiobooks within the framework of the WAY service and, as usual, takes over the complete production and quality […]
Storytel Q4 Sales Meet Forecast
Swedish audio streamer and publisher Storytel released a brief fourth quarter earnings update, with sales of SEK742 million ($69.2 million), up 22 percent and in line with expectations of SEK 735-745 million. For the year, sales were up 31 percent excluding Russia, where the company stopped doing business in September. In the Nordic segment, sales […]
Audio: Apple Books Adds Digital Narration; RBmedia Acquisitions
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 […]
RBmedia to Publish Lee & Low Audiobooks
RBmedia has partnered with Lee & Low Books to publish audiobooks for the children’s publisher. In a four-year agreement, books for all ages, including Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell and Strong As Fire, Fierce as Flame by Supriya Kelkar, will be distributed globally by RBmedia brands Recorded Books and Tantor, and […]
Princeton University Press Launches Direct Digital Sales
Princeton University Press has partnered with Glassboxx for direct-to-consumer sales of ebooks and audiobooks on its website and via the PUP app. Previously, only print editions were available to consumers directly. The press is also working to publish its backlist titles in audio. “We are dedicated to putting readers first in everything we do, a […]