I follow a handful of literary agents on twitter. One of the more consistently interesting and helpful is Rachelle Gardner, who feeds us eager authors insightful advice to light the path to acquiring and agent and publisher.
On her blog this week is a guest post from Billy Coffey, one of the authors she represents, discussing [...]
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Borders, the international book retailer, has begun selling audiobooks as downloads from their online store. 15,000 titles are planned to be available for download in mp3 – which means DRM-free, of course – and can be played on pretty much any digital music device. In addition, the audiobooks are available in WMA format – which [...]
As much as publishers panic at the thought of losing control of their products once out there on the mighty interweb, so we are seeing more companies offering professional audiobook products as DRM-free downloads. PublishersWeekly is reporting that Simply Audiobooks is about to offer more than 5000 DRM-free products from Random House. This means Simply [...]
I recently wrote here about how audiobook distribution models are not discovering their full potential due to how they cross the boundary between how a reader integrates with the material compared to how an audio listener integrates.
Readers read books (I know, it’s obvious, but bear with me) and I believe the acceptance of audiobooks [...]
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Ingram has announced its purchase of the iofy audiobook publishing platform:
Ingram Digital, an Ingram Content company focused on solutions for digital content management, hosting, distribution and promotion, today announced it has acquired the iofy digital audiobook platform from Audiofy Corporation.
This move further enhances Ingram Digital’s audio services across all sectors and adds additional experience to [...]
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