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 »
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 »
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 »
As newspaper book sections shrink or disappear, the Guardian is teaming up with the Amazon-owned Audible.co.uk to sponsor much of its books content in print and online. The companies are also… Read more »
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter community site and digital bookstore Pottermore.com now lets users gift ebooks and digital audiobooks to other people. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a collection of stories,… Read more »
The Amazon-owned digital audiobooks site Audible.com is launching a new program, “Audible Author Services,” that pays audiobook authors $1 per sale through Audible.com, Audible.co.uk, and iTunes. The audiobook publishers do not… Read more »
Audiobooks.com, a cloud-based streaming audio service for iOS and Android, launches this week as a would-be competitor to the Amazon (NSDQ:… Read more »