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Spring Audio 2011
Publishers' spring audio lists have taken shape, and there's a robust variety of offerings available to listeners. The season includes debuts from publisher Dreamscape Media and the children's imprint Candlewick on Brilliance Audio, and a new name for the former BBC Audiobooks America, now known as AudioGO.
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The 2010 Listen-Up Awards
In a year that kicked off with the rumbling of Eyjafjallajökull and stayed somber, we turned to audiobooks for escapism and edification—and we got more than we bargained for. The industry took the business of entertaining us very seriously and readers turned in unforgettable performances.
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Profiling Audiobook Customers
While consumers are changing the way they buy and listen to spoken-word audiobooks, the demographic makeup of the market has stayed pretty much the same, a recently released survey sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association found.
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Audio's Ups and Downs
The glaring takeaway from the Audio Publishers Association's statistical survey for 2009, which the group released early last week, is that while unit sales were up, revenue was down.
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Fall 2010 Audio Listings
Listeners can look forward to a bounty of audio selections this fall. Those who follow politics will find memoirs from members of the previous administration (Condoleezza Rice and President George W. Bush) as well as titles critical of the current White House residents (The Manchurian President; Washington Rules).
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eMusic Gets Into Audiobook Market
eMusic, the second biggest digital music service after iTunes, has announced that it will begin selling downloadable audiobooks.
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Out of the Gate
Audiobook editions of Hillary Clinton's 'Living History' and J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' were instant blockbuster hits.
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Hillary Clinton Battles Blizzard to Record S&S Audiobook
It takes a four-wheel–drive vehicle to get to the recording studio, but snow was no fit foe for the First Lady, who recorded 'It Takes a Village' during the Blizzard of '96.



