Friday, April 17, 2015

Scribd Adds Penguin Random House...For Audio

Publishers Lunch


Up until now Penguin Random House has not participated in any of the major ebook subscription offerings, but the publisher has a new exclusive with Scribd for audiobooks. PRH is making available more than 9,000 audio titles for unlimited listening as part of Scribd's subscription program (which combines ebooks, audiobooks and comics in a single plan). Scribd says they have more than 45,000 audiobooks available now, after launching with over 30,000 titles last November. The new titles are cataloged under www.scribd.com/penguin-random-house.

HarperCollins and Scholastic were the best-known trade publishers offering audiobooks through the subscription plan when it launched. Scribd says Amy Poehler's Yes, Please is the most popular audiobook through their subscriptions so far. Four genres -- children's, business, religion and self-help/happiness titles -- "stand out as being substantially more popular in audiobooks than in ebooks" at Scribd.

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