April 2021 News Roundup

THE TOP AUDIOBOOKS OF 2020

According to Washington Post Readers [Source: Washington Post]

COSTCO LAUNCHES AUDIOBOOK STORE AND APP

Currently, Costco appears to be focused on selling curated audiobook bundles within a variety of genres, including thrillers, romance and children’s books. [Source: FoxBusiness]

THE IKEA CATALOG IS AN AUDIOBOOK!

The nearly four-hour-long audiobook has quirky jokes, fun facts, and other observations all to drive home the point why you would want to have a particular piece of furniture that they have on offer. [Source: GoodEReader]

HOW PROOF LISTENERS ADD TO THE AUDIOBOOK EXPERIENCE

An audiobook QC expert, i.e. proof listener, shares his experiences. [Source: BookRiot]

THE BIZARRE WORLD OF SCAM AUDIOBOOKS

On sites like Amazon, there are thousands of books seemingly written by bots – and many of those are used to dupe audiobook narrators. [Source: Vice]