A Look At Audiobook Solutions and Providers
Already, a small number of publishers have begun experimenting with interactive and multimedia variations on the audio-first approach, which involves releasing the audiobook version of a particular title well ahead of its print and e-book companions. Autumn 2012, for instance, saw the release of The Silent History, an iPad- and iPhone-only product created by a self-described “programmer and storyteller,” and which was lauded in Wired magazine as “part book, part multiplayer game, part Google map, and entirely revolutionary.”
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.