Scribd is adding about 30,000 digital audiobooks to its $8.99/month ebook subscription service, helping its offering to stand out from competitors Oyster and Kindle Unlimited. Read more »
Unable to use an off-the-shelf product, one man built a custom, connected audiobook reader for his 93-year old, nearly blind grandfather. It’s a perfect example of the personalized, hackable electronic product… Read more »
Tim Ferriss, the author of popular how-to lifestyle books like “The 4-Hour Body,” says he is launching a custom publishing venture aimed at audio-books. As part of his new venture, which… Read more »
After the new episode of Homeland airs this Sunday, the Amazon-owned digital audiobook service Audible.com (s AMZN) will release a free, 30-minute “soliloquy by congressman-turned-fugitive Nicholas Brody,” the Wall Street Journal reports (paywall)… Read more »
For authors who want to use their own home equipment to narrate an audio version of their own books, or if you want to record your kids reading their favorite stories… Read more »
Amazon is officially part of the connected car, having launched its first app, Cloud Player, on Ford’s Sync platform. It’s next app should be obvious. Amazon already has the technology to… Read more »
A year after launch, Audiobooks.com is changing from an unlimited streaming audiobook offering to a subscription service that puts it in direct competition with the Amazon-owned Audible.com. Audiobooks.com says its biggest… Read more »
Amazon’s audiobook company, Brilliance, is expanding with the launch of Grand Harbor Press, a self-help and inspirational publishing division that will release books in print, digital and audio formats. Its first… Read more »