![]() ![]() Audiobooks have become her go-to and she always has one queued up. She still listens to bestsellers, classics, and her favorite sappy romances. Is reading a thing of the past for her? Not with audiobooks! Her friends still ask what she’s reading, and she loves those book discussions they once had. By the time she climbs into bed with her book, she falls asleep before she gets through the first page. Her long commute is tiring and her three kids and their activities take up much of her time away from work. Here’s a scenario: A 45-year-old lawyer who once loved to read books and discuss them with her friends can’t find time to read anymore. Throw an opportunity to sample an audiobook in, and you’re opening your own opportunity to make more sales of your book. With more people finding time to listen rather than read their books, they love a good audiobook. Whereas the print book and even ebooks are seeing a bit of a decline in sales, the audiobook continues to gain traction. People can download almost any book to their phones and listen wherever they go. With content being so accessible, almost every book can be listened to in audiobook format. Cars had CD players so people loved them for road trips and immersing themselves in listening to a great novel. Most bookstores sold them and major publishing houses had audiobook divisions. They were much more convenient as more could fit on a CD than a cassette. Once audiobooks were on CDs, it was easier to have and listen to them. Then there were audiobooks on CDs in the 1980s. The 1960s saw the rise of the cassette audiobook because of the popularity of cassette players. ![]() Did people get to sample an audiobook before purchasing one back then? Probably not, but many of the books were pretty common classics so it was a nice opportunity to be able to hear a book even if people already knew it. Some of the first recordings were plays by William Shakespeare, The Constitution, and Gladys Hasty Carroll’s novel, As the Earth Turns. By 1955, audiobooks were more and more popular with The Listening Library offering many books, mostly to people with visual impairments. That’s a far cry from what we have now, but it was a great beginning. ![]() ![]() These books were recorded on vinyl records and had about 15 minutes worth of the book on each side. In 1932, The American Foundation for the Blind created audiobooks to increase the accessibility of books to blind people. They got their start as a way that people with visual impairments could still enjoy books. But where did they get their start? Actually, audiobooks have been around for almost 100 years. Where did the audiobook come from?Īudiobooks have grown in popularity to become a pretty commonplace form of reading and entertainment. This post has been updated in September 2021. So let’s see about getting a sample of your audiobook out to your listener readers! When you can sample an audiobook, you can hear the voice reading it, you’ll know if you connect, and then you can immerse yourself in a new story when you decide to purchase it because that sample made you want more. What about audiobooks? Sure, you can read that summary blurb to know what it’s about, but you don’t get that intimate contact with the book itself. You know how you love reading the back cover of books to see what they’re all about? And then opening it and getting a feel for the pages, the font, the vibe of the book? Then you know if the book is calling to you to be read and you can’t wait to begin. ![]()
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