The Audiobook Report

🎧 Fresh Picks: New Audiobooks Worth Your Time From the dance floor in 90s New York to the a supernatural fantasy anthology

Lots of edits last week but back with some gems 📚🎧 Mark Ronson's Night People takes you inside '90s NYC club scene when Biggie dropped by & Jay-Z was unknown + Patricia Briggs expands Mercy Thompson universe

💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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The Audiobook Report: Hollywood Stars Join Harry Potter Cast as Reading Habits Decline 40% + indie author distribution wins, and why audiobooks are capturing audiences traditional books are losing.

New newsletter! 📚🎧

Kit Harington & Keira Knightley join Harry Potter's 200+ voice cast while US reading habits crash 40%.

Plus: how one indie author cracked global distribution. Industry insider takes you won't find elsewhere ⬇️

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🎧 Fresh Picks: New Audiobooks Worth Your Time From Fashion Empire Secrets to Literary Mind Games

Just came up for air after editing tons of #audiobooks 📚🎧 This week's exciting new releases include a fashion empire secrets from Barneys + Rachel Cusk's mind-bending experimental fiction.

Check out in todays newsletter:

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The Audiobook Report: Spotify raises prices citing audiobook revenue Plus AI narration platform launches amid industry criticism + why lazy press coverage misses the real story

🚨 #Spotify just raised prices citing #AUDIOBOOKS as the reason. + #AI platforms claim they can replace human narrators with "emotionally resonant" performances.

I've used these AI tools—spoiler: they're not that simple.

Latest industry breakdown ⬇️ 💙📚

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🚨 This Week's Top 10 Audiobooks 🚨 Plus: My take on this week's breakout hit

I'm staring at this week's charts and honestly scratching my head. Only 1 new #audibook cracked the top 10 & the entire top 5 remains unchanged from last week. That's... unusual, to put it mildly. 📚🎧

Check it all out in this weeks FREE #newsletter

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🎧 Fresh Picks: New Audiobooks Worth Your Tim From Street Cop Stories to International Espionage

Spent months editing a cop memoir, legally gagged from sharing the wildest stories 🤐
Naked suspects, pepper spray fails... Super Troopers meets The Wire vibes
Pig Latin dropped today + Andrew Warren's new spy thriller Code Green

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The Audiobook Report: Spotify's Visual Revolution & Romantasy Boom This week's audiobook news: Spotify launches Follow Along features, romantasy explodes on TikTok, simple marketing wins big + Broadway stars join the industry

🚨 DID @SPOTIFY CHANGE #AUDIOBOOKS FOREVER? 🤔
Their new "Follow Along" feature adds visuals to stories. What does this mean for listeners? The industry? 💙📚

Plus:
📚🎧 Romantasy takes over
🔥 emoji marketing wins
🎭 Broadway enters the chat

Full analysis ⬇️
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🚨 This Week's Top 10 Audiobooks 🚨 + My take on this week's breakout hit

Mel Robbins superglued to #1 while Matt Diniman has 2 dungeon crawler books in top 10.

Apparently we want to battle our problems with therapy AND swords

This week: Fredrik Backman's emotional hit. New newsletter live!

💙📚 #audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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🎧 Fresh Picks: New Audiobooks Worth Your Time From Scottish Secrets to Military Scandals

Two wildly different #audiobooks this week: a haunting Scottish cold case and hard-hitting military exposé. Sometimes you need atmospheric mystery, sometimes brutal truth.

Both delivered exactly what they promised 📚🎧

💙📚 New reviews 👇

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The Audiobook Report: Piracy Surge, AI Battles & Industry Under Fire 🏴‍☠️🤖 This weeks audiobook news: Digital piracy, voice actors fight AI replacement, beloved characters spark controversy + more

Publishers spend millions on #AI voices that sound like what pirates make for pennies on #YouTube

That + #HarryPotter + voice actor battles & more audiobook news👇

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🚨 This Week's Top 10 Audiobooks 🚨 Plus: My take on this week's breakout hit

Week after week, The Let Them Theory holds strong at #1. 📚🎧 We might need therapy y'all!

But this week brought TWO new fiction thrillers to the top 10! 💙📚

Check out the full top 10 #audiobooks + a deep dive into We Are All Guilty Here 👇

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Audiobook Pirates Are Using Publisher Tech to Beat Publishers + the voice actor sellout dilemma, a new music pick and my atomic bomb book update

35% of audiobook listeners are pirates now 📚🎧 Not broke kids - people earning $60K+ who realized "legitimate" #AI books sound exactly like free YouTube versions

Full story + Voice actors facing $50K AI clone offers & some new tunes👇

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🎧 Fresh Picks: New Audiobooks Worth Your Time From Instagram Confessions to Giant Robot Battles

Ever wonder what's behind that perfect Instagram grid? 📱 I dove into Lee Tilghman's brutally honest influencer memoir + escaped to Warhammer 40K's giant robot battles.

Wildly different #audiobooks 📚🎧 both delivered.

💙📚 Fresh picks in this week's newsletter ⬇️

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The Audiobook Report: A-List Casts, Streaming Wars & Industry Game-Changers ⚡🎵 Breaking audiobook news: Harry Potter full-cast series, Spotify's 200K+ library launch, and indie author opportunities

🚨 AUDIOBOOK #NEWS 📚🎧

#HarryPotter is getting the A-list treatment! Laurie as Dumbledore, Macfadyen as Voldemort. PREORDERS ALREADY TOP 10!

+ #Spotify drops 200K+ audiobooks for Premium users.

Full analysis in today's newsletter 👇

#BookLovers 💙📚 #Audiobooks

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🚨 This Week's Top 10 Audiobooks 🚨 Plus: Why Regretting You deserves your next credit

🚨 NEW: This Week's Top 10 #Audiobooks 📚🎧

The Let Them Theory STILL dominates, Project Hail Mary returns (thanks Ryan Gosling), and #HarryPotter pre-order cracks the top 10! 💙📚

+ my deep dive into Regretting You

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🚨 This Week's Top 10 Audiobooks 🚨 Plus: Why Regretting You deserves your next credit

🚨 NEW: This Week's Top 10 #Audiobooks 📚🎧

The Let Them Theory STILL dominates, Project Hail Mary returns (thanks Ryan Gosling), and #HarryPotter pre-order cracks the top 10! 💙📚

+ my deep dive into Regretting You

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📺 Media Chaos & Musical Therapy 🎧 Another Week of Spiraling Through Tech, Media & Sound

Just dropped my weekly #media chaos newsletter 📺🎵

This week: editing 23 actors for an A-Bomb audiobook, Nina Diaz leaving #Paramount (one of the good ones), why #AI storytelling terrifies me, + 2 bands > algorithms

Also ditching #Spotify for obvious reasons 😬

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🎧 Fresh Picks: New Audiobooks Worth Your Time Editor's picks from this week's releases

Ever judge a book by its cover? I did this week—and it paid off brilliantly. Plus: the atomic bomb oral history I spent weeks editing finally drops today. Fresh audiobook reviews from behind the studio 🎧

💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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Silicon Valley Wants to Replace Storytellers With Prompts — Here’s Why That’s Terrifying From Star Trek’s holodeck to Amazon’s AI ‘Showrunner’ — how tech giants are selling us creativity without the human soul

Silicon Valley thinks prompts = creativity. Here's why they're dead wrong. 🧵

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The Audiobook Report: Weekly Industry Roundup The week's biggest audio news from inside the industry

This week in #audiobooks: Emma Thompson returns to Austen, a narrator's blooper goes viral on #BookTok, and Julia Whelan calls out the industry's broken pay model.

The stories that matter + what they mean for listeners 👇

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🎧📚 The Audiobook Report 📚🎧 6/5/2025 Issue #11 - Your weekly guide to finding your next favorite listen

🚨 Your audiobook queue is judging you, and honestly, same. 💙📚 This week newsletter: Spotify's world domination continues, French content explodes, and a new Wally Lamb release that'll wreck you emotionally. Get the full scoop 👇

📚🎧 #Audiobooks #news

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🎧📚 The Audiobook Report 📚🎧 5/23/2025 Issue #8 - Your weekly guide to finding your next favorite listen

💙📚 New Audiobook Report: Kennedy Ryan romance that'll ruin your commute, Spotify iOS game-changer, Michael Connelly mystery I edited, + ancient Pompeii secrets! This week's lineup is fire 📚🎧 #Audiobooks #news

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Breaking! 💙📚 Apple approves Spotify update enabling in-app audiobook purchases for US users! This game-changing move eliminates redirects, streamlining how listeners buy and enjoy their favorite titles. Huge win for accessibility! #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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Got cha. I guess I'm not as tech savvy as I thought.

But if you cancel Audible are you able to listen to your books? I wasn't able to?

The Big Audiobook Subscription Services Are A Scam - Good e-Reader Audible and Everand don't allow you to continue listening to audiobooks after cancelling your subscription.

Interesting take 🤔 What do you think? I have never liked that once I cancel my Audible membership I can't listen to the books I've used credits on.

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💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧

Spotify Launches 33 ⅓ Audiobooks Series, Featuring Celine Dion, Kendrick Lamar, Pink Floyd & More - That Eric Alper Spotify aims to bring compelling audiobooks to as many consumers as possible, and they’re eager to give fans even more options as they discover their next great listens. For their latest chapter, Spot...

Spotify just launched "33 ⅓" audiobook series featuring deep dives into iconic albums by Celine Dion, Kendrick Lamar, Pink Floyd & more! Music history comes alive through these audio explorations 💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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Wrestling legend Bret "The Hitman" Hart's autobiography is finally coming to audio! 💙📚 The iconic wrestler's story will be available in his own voice, bringing his journey from Calgary's Dungeon to WWE stardom to life #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

I do all the hard work of finding the best of the best in the audiobook world. Get weekly recommendations and #news from an industry insider, straight to your inbox.

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🎧📚 The Audiobook Report 📚🎧 5/16/2025 Issue #7 - Your weekly guide to finding your next favorite listen

💙📚 From Ray Dalio to @natebargatze, get the inside scoop on what makes great #audiobooks tick in this week's newsletter! 📚🎧 👇

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