Audio Spotlight: Marketing Strategies Help Vitalize Audiobook Collections

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The audiobook industry continues to grow in near-equal measure in both the library and retail sectors, with the Audio Publishers Association (APA) ballparking sales at an all-time high of $1.2 billion. Libraries are in a real position to take advantage of the trend. Yet with diminished AV budgets, limited title and format availability, and a constant influx of competing downloadable and streaming offerings from the consumer realm, the prospect can be daunting. For libraries wanting to reap the benefits of increased awareness and discovery of their audio holdings, LJ spotlights some best practices in audiobook promotion, discusses some of the challenges inherent to the medium, and proposes new ways of thinking about audio that might even make it a catalyst for moving print.

The Reader’s Shelf | March 1, 2013

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Members of the Reference & User Service Association’s Listen List suggest well-narrated audiobooks

The Narrating Brilliance of Simon Prebble | RA Crossroads

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Experience the brilliance of audiobook narrator Simon Prebble in his own voice, listen-alikes, listen-arounds, and listen-agains. Readers’ advisory recommends Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell; Morgenstern’s The Night Circus; Eliot’s Middlemarch, Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities among others to get reading patrons listening.

Audio Reviews | February 1, 2013

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Reviews of James M. Cain’s The Cocktail Waitress, Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue, and Fangoria’s Dreadtime Stories, plus a full list of audiobook reviews in the Feb. 1 issue.

Audio Newsbrief | January 2013

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Review of Galaxy Audio Readers Theater Performance Kit.

Audio Reviews | January 2013

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Reviews of the audiobooks of Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone, Rachel Maddow’s Drift, and Alex Grecian’s The Yard, plus a full list of audiobook reviews in the January issue.

Best Media 2012: Best Audiobooks–Reviewers’ Picks

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As the fading embers of 2012 went cold, book lovers digested LJ’s many best-of lists. While print is the main course, there are scrumptious multimedia goodies to feast on as well—and dessert is the best part of the meal! LJ again polled its audiobook reviewers for the best fiction and nonfiction listens. Fiction Barry, Dave [...]

Best Media 2012: Best Audiobooks–Editor’s Picks

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In addition to assigning and editing the audiobook reviews, Media Editor Michael Rogers is himself a prolific audiobook reviewer with eclectic tastes. Along with the reviewer picks above, he offers his personal favorites from the year that was. Fiction Hubbard, L. Ron. Hell’s Legionnaire. Galaxy Audio. ISBN 9781592122622. $9.95. F Galaxy released a handful of [...]

Audio Reviews | December 2012

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Reviews of Chris Bohjalian’s The Sandcastle Girls, Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes, and Fanny Merkin’s Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, plus a full list of audiobook reviews from the Dec. issue.

Audio Reviews | November 15, 2012

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Reviews of Fangoria’s Dreadtime Stories, John le Carre’s A Murder of Quality, and Bob Spitz’s Dearie, plus a full list of audio reviews from the Nov. 15 issue.

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