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Listen Up Everybody!

audiobookWe’ve been talking for years about the portability of audio stories, and it looks like we’re at the beginning of the trend. We talked yesterday about whether or not we were climbing up one side of the hill or going down another.

According to The Digital Readerwe are approaching a golden age of audio stories. Downloadable audiobooks are the fastest growing format with a +26.2% growth in 2013 and up 28% in 2014 surpassing e-books.

All of this and more can be found in the Publishing Trends article “Listen Up”!

Give yourself a high-five! You listeners are at the forefront of our long-awaited revolution!

Can Podcasting Crest the Hill?

adaptIn an interesting article in Midroll, Paul Riismandel argues that a recent critical article from Variety entitled “Why Serial Won’t Do Much for Podcasting or Hollywood” just doesn’t get it. The Variety article suggests exactly what it promises in the title- in that the explosively popular Serial from NPR won’t make any inroads into adapting its radio series into movies or even make a breakthrough for the relatively small listening audience of the podcast.

Riismandel, however provides a couple of examples as to how that’s already happened, and podcasts are ready for the big show. What do you think?

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