Published on: 2025-06-17 00:10:00
Are you among the heaps of folks out there set to travel this Memorial Day weekend? Whether it's a long drive or a long flight, audiobooks are a fantastic option to keep yourself occupied and there's one app that'll get you everything you need for free: Libby. Audiobooks are an addiction I picked up straight out of college, with a newfound need to occupy my brain during commutes to work and on lunch breaks. I was pushed to try them after being mightily embarrassed over my inability to make much
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 01:03:04
Spotify is continuing to add more ways for listeners to directly make purchases within its iOS app. Following on the streaming service's changes to make purchasing subscriptions easier earlier this month, there's now an an option for users to buy audiobooks in Spotify. "Spotify submitted a new app update that Apple has approved: Spotify users in the United States can now see pricing, buy individual audiobooks and purchase additional 'Top Up' hours for audiobook listening beyond the 15 hours inc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 21:00:00
A long holiday like Memorial Day weekend means one thing for a lot of folks: travel. And travel usually means you need ways to keep yourself entertained. If you, like me, turn to audiobooks in times like this, you need to know about Libby. Audiobooks are an addiction I picked up straight out of college, with a newfound need to occupy my brain during commutes to work and on lunch breaks. I was pushed to try them after being mightily embarrassed over my inability to make much progress in Lord of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 09:46:46
Audible, Amazon’s audiobook service, announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with select publishers to convert print and e-books into AI-narrated audiobooks. This initiative aims to quickly expand its catalog as it competes with Apple, Spotify, and others in the rapidly growing audiobook market. Audible is leveraging Amazon’s AI capabilities to assist publishers in producing audiobooks. Publishers can choose from over 100 AI-generated voices available in English, French, Spanish, and Italian,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 06:55:21
On Monday morning this week I started a dot point list of notes I wanted to hit in this week’s bad review, then I looked up and it was lunchtime and I was 1200 words into something much, much bigger. It was going to be about the first few chapters of the audiobook of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I had stopped listening after about an hour but when I spoke about to a couple of friends about the book they replied that they had loved reading it and I trusted them enough t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-25 01:55:27
Spotify announced on Friday that it plans to invest €1 million–or approximately $1.1 million — to boost audiobook production in languages other than English, beginning with French and Dutch. The investment indicates that Spotify is eager for more non-English titles in its limited library as it tries to compete with major players like Audible in the $8.7 billion global audiobooks market. Adoption has been particularly slow in France and the Netherlands, which is why Spotify is starting with the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-08 16:50:44
We’re an audiobook family at House Hutchinson, and at any given moment my wife or I are probably listening to one while puttering around. We've collected a bit over 300 of the things—mostly titles from web sources (including Amazon's Audible) and from older physical "books on tape" (most of which are actually on CDs). I don't mind doing the extra legwork of getting everything into files and then dragging-n-dropping those files into the Books app on my Mac, but my wife prefers to simply use Audib
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-11 16:53:01
In an expansion of its existing audiobooks efforts, Spotify on Thursday announced the launch of a new publishing program for authors that allows them to submit short-form stories they’d like to see turned into audiobooks. When Spotify selects a story for audiobook publishing, it will handle the production and distribution of the work to other major audiobook retailers, the company says. Meanwhile, it will pay the author both an advance and royalties. Specifically, the company says it’s looking
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-19 08:00:00
You might've heard that a big weeklong boycott against Amazon and all its subsidiaries kicked off on March 7, organized by the same group -- People's Union USA -- behind the Feb. 28 "economic blackout" day. The prospect of this boycott can feel daunting given the many companies Amazon owns: Whole Foods, Ring, Twitch, IMDb, Zappos, and the list goes on. However, one of the more prominent companies in Amazon's portfolio is one I've done a lot of business with over the years, Audible, and if you're
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-09 06:45:45
Voice AI company ElevenLabs is now letting authors publish AI-generated audiobooks on its own Reader app, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. The announcement comes days after the company partnered with Spotify for AI-narrated audiobooks. ElevenLabs, which raised a $180 million mega-round last month, started inviting authors to try out their publishing program through their app on a trial basis last year, TechCrunch previously spotted. That program is newly open to all authors as
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