A Look At Audiobook Solutions and Providers
This article originally appeared as a sidebar in the audiobook feature in Publishing Executive's April issue. You can find that article here.
Audiobook Creation Exchange
An argument could certainly be made that the audiobook industry was forever altered in 1995, the year entrepreneur Don Katz introduced Audible.com to the world. Although as APA president Michele Cobb explains, the audiobook e-commerce portal didn't truly catch on for another six years, when Apple's iPod was launched. "That's when, for us as an industry, digital really hit its stride," she says.
Dan Eldridge is a journalist and guidebook author based in Philadelphia's historic Old City district, where he and his partner own and operate Kaya Aerial Yoga, the city's only aerial yoga studio. A longtime cultural reporter, Eldridge also writes about small business and entrepreneurship, travel, and the publishing industry. Follow him on Twitter at @YoungPioneers.