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Spotify’s Plans for Audiobook Growth Were Based on Magical Thinking About Apple’s App Store

October 26, 2022
By Michael Cader

Spotify has answered for themselves the question about whether their long-touted audiobooks offering will have much impact on the market. The company has struggled to obtain approval from Apple’s app store for their efforts to circumvent the well-known rules around in-app purchases. It turns out if you don’t want to pay Apple their 30 percent […]

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Forthcoming Audio: The Trump Tapes by Bob Woodward

October 18, 2022
By Erin Somers

Simon & Schuster Audio will release The Trump Tapes by Bob Woodward, an “eight-hour audio archive of Bob Woodward’s twenty interviews with President Donald J. Trump,” on October 25. The book will be available simultaneously in both the US and the UK. The publisher writes in a release that the 19 interviews begin in March […]

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Easier Listening

October 18, 2022
By Michael Cader

Building on the recent launch of our daily audio version of the day’s publishing news, our Publishers Lunchcast is now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, where you can listen or subscribe.

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RBmedia Acquires John Verlag’s German-language Audiobook Catalog

October 5, 2022
By Erin Somers

Audiobook company RBmedia has acquired John Verlag’s German-language audiobook catalog. The newly-acquired titles–described in a release as “predominantly nonfiction audiobooks in the politics, investigative journalism, business, biographies, and advice genres”–will be added to the RBmedia Verlag audio brand. As the company notes in the announcement, since 2021 RBmedia has acquired five European audiobook catalogs—Booka, ABOD, […]

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The Sound of Lunch

October 4, 2022
By Michael Cader

No, it’s not a Zen koan but rather yet another new experiment from Team Lunch. For enhanced accessibility as well anyone who prefers listening to the day’s news, we are now offering a podcast of the daily newsletter. Visit or bookmark the Publishers Lunch Audio page, where we will post the daily recording after the […]

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Storytel Expands Into France

September 27, 2022
By Katy Hershberger

Storytel is launching their audiobook subscription in France today, and has partnered with the country’s largest publishers — including Hachette Livre, Madrigall, Editis, and Actes Sud. Readers will be able to access more than 7,000 titles in French and more than 290,000 in Arabic and English through Storytel. Storytel says the agreements also “open the […]

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