Spotify takes its premium subscribers the option to buy 15 hours of extra audiobook listening time as a monthly add-on.
Spotify Opens French and Dutch Audiobook Production
Touting an investment of €1 million, Spotify builds on its French and Benelux audiobook operations to open a new production initiative.
Scholastic Makes a Five-Nation Dav Pilkey ‘Dog Man’ Release
Scholastic flexes its international reach in the five-nation release of Dav Pilkey’s 13th ‘Dog Man’ series book.
Bloomsbury Opens an Audiobook Distribution Agreement With Spotify
Bloomsbury titles are to go to the Spotify ‘Audiobooks in Premium’ offering, and to a-la-carte availability for those without subscriptions.
Taylor & Francis Announces a ‘Journal of Psychology and AI’
‘How human behavior is indirectly altered’ by AI is part of the topical range of Taylor & Francis’ new ‘Journal of Psychology and AI.’
Hachette in the UK and USA: International Management
The key changes announced emphasize greater international dexterity for Hachette under David Shelley’s transatlantic leadership.
Mirchandani Leads Simon & Schuster UK’s Summit Books
Revived in the States earlier this year, Simon & Schuster’s imprint Summit Books is being introduced in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
Spotify Expands Its Premium Audiobooks Offer: Canada, Ireland, New Zealand
As Bologna Book Plus prepares to stage its first Audio Forum, Spotify’s audiobook catalogue jumps from 200,000 t0 250,000 titles.
Rights Roundup: Warming Up for Frankfurt Book Fair
Titles in this Frankfurt-bound Rights Roundup include work originally published in New Zealand, Taiwan, South Korea, the United States, France, and Norway.
Libro.fm Opens, Audiobook Sales Through Local Bookstores
The seven-year-old Seattle-based Libro.fm opens a Bookshop.org-style audiobook-selling service in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.