Audible UK revenue grows by 45%
Audible UK has reported a 45% growth in revenue in 2017 to £97 million (A$174.4m), up from £67.1 million (A$120.7m) in the previous year, reports the Bookseller. According to accounts filed...
Audible appoints Naparstek as director of original content
Audible Australia has appointed Ben Naparstek as director of original content. In the new role, Naparstek will oversee the development of original audio shows, series and dramatisations. The announcement comes...
Audible partners with Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine
In the US, Audible has announced a partnership with Hello Sunshine, the cross-platform media brand founded by Reese Witherspoon that is dedicated to producing female-driven content, reports Publishers Weekly. Reese’s...
Audible Australia lodges ‘triple-figure’ revenue growth
Audible Australia has lodged ‘triple-figure’ revenue growth each year since it opened its local audiobook store in January 2014. While the company declined to say how many local members it...
New Deaver thriller audiobook only
Jeffery Deaver’s most recent work The Starling Project will not be printed but ‘was conceived, written and produced as an original audio drama for Audible’, reports the New York Times....
Audible launches free audiobook promotion on its Australian store
Amazon-owned audiobook retailer Audible has launched a promotion on its Australian website offering a free audiobook collection.The audible.com.au site, which went live on 15 January, is offering the free bundled audiobook #ListenUp Collection,...
Audible launches Australian audiobook store
Amazon-owned Audible has launched an Australian audiobook store. The audible.com.au site went live on 15 January. Australian customers, who were previously able to purchase audiobooks from the Audible US site,...
Audible ends US$1 author payments program
Amazon-owned audiobooks provider Audible is ending its Author Services program, which pays authors a US$1 ‘honoraria’ for every audiobook sold through Audible.com, Audible.co.uk and iTunes, reports paidContent. Authors have been sent...