Audible launches Australian audiobook store
Amazon-owned Audible has launched an Australian audiobook store. The audible.com.au site went live on 15 January. Australian customers, who were previously able to purchase audiobooks from the Audible US site,...
Author Tim Ferriss begins publishing audiobooks
In the US, self-help author Tim Ferriss has begun publishing audiobooks, reports TechCrunch. Ferriss, who is the author of books such as The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body (both Vermilion), is...
Redundancies announced in AudioGo administration
In the UK, 57 employees have been made redundant at audiobook publisher and retailer AudioGO after the company was placed into administration at the end of October, reports the Bookseller....
Shelf talk: Listen up
Bolinda’s forthcoming audiobook releases include, in nonfiction, The Great Race by David Hill (read by Paul English, February), a thrilling historical account of the race between the English and the...
Turning up the volume: Innovation at Bolinda
It’s a small and often overlooked part of the book market, but audiobooks are showing no signs of decline. Andrew Wrathall spoke to Bolinda CEO Rebecca Herrmann about the company’s...
New US ebook and audiobook publisher to launch this month
Riverdale Avenue Books (RAB), a new US ebook and audiobook publisher, will launch on 17 December with two nonfiction titles, reports Publishers Weekly. Literary agent and publisher Lori Perkins and...
Vision Australia audiobooks now available through Wavesound
Audiobook titles previously published by Vision Australia are now available to Australian public libraries through audiobook publisher and distributor Wavesound. A spokesperson for Vision Australia told Bookseller+Publisher that Vision Australia...
New owner for Continental Bookshop and Soundbooks; business moves online
Specialist Melbourne bookstore Continental Bookshop and Soundbooks has been sold and is now operating as an online-only business. Chris Raynor, who operated the business with his wife Marian, told Bookseller+Publisher...
Canongate, Faber to co-publish audiobooks
UK publishers Canongate and Faber will launch an audiobook co-publishing venture later this year, reports the Bookseller. Under the arrangement, Canongate will handle the sales and production of the audio...
Bolinda opens New Zealand office
Australia-based audiobook publisher Bolinda Publishing has established an office in Auckland, New Zealand. Bolinda co-CEO Rebecca Hermann told the Weekly Book Newsletter that two full-time local staff, sales executives Ed...
Vision Australia ceases production of new audio titles
Vision Australia has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that it has ceased production of new audiobook titles. Vision Australia audio publishing sales and marketing manager Jennifer Smith told the...
Bolinda Audio partners with ABC Commercial
Audiobook publisher Bolinda has announced it will join forces with ABC Commercial to produce a new range of Australian audiobook titles. The partnership, announced last Friday, will see the reproduction...
Bolinda digital for libraries, plans for bookshops and ebooks
Bolinda has launched an audiobook download solution for libraries, with plans to offer the solution to retailers next year, and to incorporate ebook downloads in the future. ‘Bolinda digital is...
Bolinda launches ‘e-audiobook’ service for libraries & book retailers
Audiobook publisher Bolinda has launched Bolinda Digital, a new ‘e-audiobook’ service for both online book retailers and libraries.Bolinda Digital titles will appear on-screen in catalogue searches as the library or...
Herrmanns acquire Bolinda Audio
Phil Walshe, who founded the audiobook company Bolinda Publishing some 30 years ago, has sold the business to his daughter Rebecca and her husband Jan Herrmann. ‘[We] have acquired Bolinda...
Herrmanns purchase Bolinda, digital launch imminent
Phil Walshe has sold Bolinda Audio to his daughter, Bolinda Audio director Rebecca Herrmann, and her husband Jan. The company, which Walsh started some 30 years ago, has offices in...
In brief
iMinds launches ‘MindTracks'New Australian audio publisher iMinds has launched a collection of short nonfiction general knowledge ‘tracks' that can be purchased and downloaded through iTunes or the US audiobook website...
‘Exceptionally strong’ year for Simon & Schuster
Total international revenue for Simon & Schuster increased 10% to US$886.1 million (A$943.4 million) in 2007, with operating income up 29% to US$88.1 million (A$93.8 million). The ‘exceptionally strong' results...
Bolinda title on Audies shortlist
Bolinda's audiobook of Ogre in a Toga, written and narrated by Geoffrey McSkimming, has made the shortlist for the 2008 Audies awards.Ogre in a Toga is nominated in the children's--up...
ASA warns on digital rights
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has expressed ‘serious concerns' over rights and contractual issues caused by the increasing delivery of digitised content.The ASA's concerns have been prompted by developments...