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2011 AudiesÂ® Top Award Nominees Announced

Recently the Audio Publishers Association announced the nominees for the top level categories for their 2011 AudiesÂ® Awards.Â I was half tempted to put a picture of Johnny Depp here instead of Keith Richards, whose autobiography has been nominated for AudioBook of the Year.Â Johnny Depp is said to be one of the reasons why […]

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2008 Audio Book Sales Survey Released by APA

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.Â 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 […]

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Are Audio Book Sales Decreasing?

The Association of American Publishers released their estimated sales data for the month of March 2009 which includes audio books.Â It was not surprising that they reported a decrease in sales from last March to this March.Â The recession is affecting everyone and audio books and even books in general can be considered a luxury […]

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Online Audio Book Catalogs

We have been reviewing some of our frequently asked questions from the CreateTimeAudio store and have found that there are still some who think that audio books are not being produced for most books.Â This is not the case.Â The growth of the audio book industry continues as cited in the Audio Publisher Association’s September […]