How is Streaming Changing Audiobook Consumption?

While the music industry continues to respond to the changes in consumer behaviour emanating from technological advances, audiobook publishers are facing many of the same issues. One major subject for record labels has been the question of ownership versus access: do consumers want to own content or are they happy simply to access it whether online or, in the case of audio-visual product, through rental of physical carriers? In the film market there appears to be an accommodation of all modes of consumption: cinema, physical format for both ownership and rental, broadcast and access through digital platforms such as Netflix.