Digital Publishing
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“Everything old is new again”

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The born-again format of audio books keep racking up sales.

In the UK, The Bookseller reports in its FutureBook conference material that audiobooks are the fastest growing segment of the digital content market for trade publishers, with the overall audio digital download market “said to be worth close to £100 million (US$125 million) per year.”

And according to Nicholas Jones of London producer Strathmore Publishing, downloaded audio sales in the UK were up 29 percent in 2015 over 2014. He writes that releases of audiobook editions of titles “is almost always simultaneous with the publication of the printed book, which means that the audiobook benefits from publicity at the time of print publication, but it also reduces the time available for audio production.”

At the turn of the century, “there were only 3,000 or 4,000 audiobooks produced per year. Now we see 36,000 titles per year.” – Michele Cobb

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