Audiobooks: Where They’ve Been & Where They’re Headed

Audio Publishers Association executive director Michele Cobb on the future of the audiobook industry.   April 2015 By Michele Cobb, Executive Director, APA

I always refer to audio publishers as digital pioneers. Long before the rise of the ebook we sat in stuffy conference rooms and discussed the importance of good metadata and the best methods for file transfers or website downloads or digital sampling. With the turning of the 20th century and the introduction of this funky little device called the iPod the audiobook world was revolutionized. Suddenly, audiobooks stopped taking up physical space. People could carry 20 audiobooks wherever they went. And they did.

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