5/28/2023 0 Comments Wild by Jill Barnett“People would dismiss them, saying, ‘Oh, audiobooks are for the blind,’” says Willow Nash, who has recorded hundreds of audiobooks in her career, including by authors such as Jill Mansell, M. There was even a certain snobbery around the format. Cassette tapes holding abridged versions of literary classics, children’s stories or the latest crime novel sat in corners of bookshops, rarely generating much publicity. Aside from outliers like Harry Potter, audiobooks were largely ignored by much of the books trade for many years. Louis Theroux recorded his audiobook for one week While Audible, owned by Amazon, remains the biggest audiobook platform, Spotify launched its own service last year, offering more than 300,000 titles, and calling it a “massive opportunity” for the company. That demand is leading many of the world’s tech giants to invest heavily in the industry. Around 27 million audiobooks were purchased in the UK last year, according to the retail sales monitoring service Nielsen – more than four times as many as were sold just a decade ago.
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