Back in May I wrote about the report by the Association of American Publishers which painted a pretty dire picture of audio book sales particularly for March of this year. I am happy to report that the more detailed report published by the Audio Publishers Association for 2008 only estimates a drop of 6.7% in Gross and Net Sales from 2007. I say only because the economy is not helping the publishing industry so a drop in sales is expected.
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Listen to Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book for free! Believe it or not if you go the his website for young readers you can do that by listening to the videos of the video tour he did for the book. Like me you may be surprised that he did this. Won't this diminish the value of his book? Why would I buy the book now? This kind of thinking is what leaves us in the same place and not moving forward whether it be in the publishing business in general or the audio book industry itself.
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As I mentioned in my last post I was looking forward to the 2009 Audies® being announced since the awards ceremony was Friday evening. I checked the Audies site before I went to sleep on Friday and then on Saturday morning. On Saturday morning the put up the PDF with all of the award winners. As some of you may know already Neil Gaiman won the Audio Book of the Year for the Graveyard Book.
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The Audies® are being held tomorrow evening in New York. Regretably I will not be attending this year but have high hopes to do so next year. The Audie Award ceremony is the kickoff to the most visible time for the audiobook industry.
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The Association of American Publishers released their estimated sales data for the month of March 2009 which includes audio books. It was not surprising that they reported a decrease in sales from last March to this March. The recession is affecting everyone and audio books and even books in general can be considered a luxury that some of us can not afford right now.
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